This little book can do no more than humbly touch the fringe of a large subject; but if it leads the reader to a further study of this beautiful craft, it will have amply fulfilled its duty.

I must express my deep obligation to the magnificent volume on ivories by M. Emile Molinier, whose masterly arrangement of a very fragmentary and scattered subject is a model of lucidity; and also to Dr. Hans Graeven, whose scholarly researches and excellent photographs are indispensable for a real study of the craft.

A. M. Cust.

December, 1901.

CONTENTS

PAGE
List of Illustrations[xiii]
Bibliography[xvii]

CHAPTER I.
Consular and other Secular Diptychs[ 1]

CHAPTER II.
Latin and Byzantine Ivories[37]
I.Latin and Latino-Byzantine and
 the Early Byzantine Ivories[37]
II.Byzantine Caskets[75]
III.The Byzantine Renaissance[84]

CHAPTER III.
Lombardic, Anglo-Saxon, Carlovingian
and German Ivories[96]
I.Lombard Ivory Carvings[96]
II.Anglo-Saxon Ivory Carvings[99]
III.The Carlovingian Renaissance[106]
IV.German Ivory Carving in the time
 of the Ottos[118]

CHAPTER IV.
Romanesque and Gothic Ivories[129]

List of Diptychs		[157]
List of Places where Important Examples
 of Ivories can be found[165]
Index[167]