The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages

by Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust

LIST OF DIPTYCHS
FROM MOLINIER

CONSULAR

• 1. About 400. [Probably] Stilicho.
• a. Stilicho, standing, armed, bearded.
• b. Serena and little Eucherius, standing.
• Tesorio della Basilica, Monza.
• 2. 406. Probus. Rome.
• a. Emperor Honorius, standing, armed, with standard and orb.
• b. Emperor Honorius, standing, armed, with shield and spear.
• Cathedral Treasury, Aosta.
• 3. 428. Felix. Rome.
• a. Standing in trabea, bearded.
• b. Standing in chlamys.
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
• 4. 449. Asturias. Rome.
• a. Sitting on curule chair, two attendants (lost).
• b. Same type (formerly at Liège).
• Darmstadt Museum.
• 5. 487. Boethius. Rome.
• a. Sitting, holding mappa.
• b. Standing.
• Museo Civico, Brescia.
• 6. 488. Sividius. Rome.
• a. Inscribed medallion and scrolls.
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
• b. Inscribed medallion and scrolls (lost).
• 7. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. Consular type. Lions.
• b. Cons. type. Bears.
• National Museum, Zurich.
• 8. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. Cons. type. Bears (Basilewsky Coll.).
• Museum of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
• b. (Lost.)
• 9. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. Cons. type. Gladiators.
• b. (Lost, or possibly pair to No. 10.)
• Besançon Museum.
• 10. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. (Lost or possibly pair to No. 9.)
• b. Cons. type. Bull-fight (late Baudot Coll.).
• Musée de Cluny, Paris.
• 11. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Crossed cornucopias.
• Biblioteca, Lucca.
• 12. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Bust and scroll. Monogram.
• Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
• 13. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. Same as No. 12. (Renaissance carving on back.)
• Louvre, Paris.
• 14. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Type of No. 12, without monogram
• (formerly in Treasury of St. Gaudenzio, Novara).
• Museo Civico, Bologna.
• 15. 513. Clementinus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Cons. type. Monogram.
• Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
• 16. 515. Anthemius. Constantinople.
• a. Cons. type (lost).
• (Formerly at Limoges.)
• 17. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
• a. Cons. type. Bears.
• b. Cons. type. Manumission of slaves, etc.
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
• 18. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
• a. Cons. type (formerly at Liège).
• Berlin Museum.
• b. Cons. type (broken), (formerly at Liège).
• Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London.
• 19. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
• b. Type of No. 18. Two Amazons and jugglers.
• Chapter Library, Verona.
• 20. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
• b. Lower fragment, two Amazons and tumblers.
• (Formerly Coll. Jauzé, lost.)
• 21. 518. Magnus. Constantinople.
• a. Cons. type (formerly at Leyden).
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
• 22. 518. Magnus. Constantinople (attributed to).
• a. Type of No. 21 (camel bone).
• Re-inscribed PIO PRAESULE BALDRICO IUBENTE.
• Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
• 23. 518. Magnus. Constantinople (attributed to).
• a. Type of No. 21.
• Re-inscribed ARABONTI DEO VOTA (formerly Basilewsky Coll.).
• Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
• 24. 518. Magnus. Constantinople (attributed to).
• a. Type of No. 21. Changed to wrinkled old man.
• Museo di Castello, Milan.
• 26. 521. Justinianus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Inscribed medallion, four rosettes.
• Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
• 27. 521. Justinianus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Type of No. 26.
• Collection Sigismond Bordac.
• 28. 521. Justinianus. Constantinople.
• a. Type of No. 26 (formerly at Autun).
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
• 29. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Three linked medallions (formerly
• in St. Corneille, Compiègne).
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
• 30. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Inscribed octagon with scrolls.
• Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
• 31. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Type of No. 30.
• Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
• 32. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Type of No. 30 (worn).
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
• 33. [530?] Lampadius. Constantinople.
• Consul behind cancelli. Chariot Race.
• Museo Civico, Brescia.
• 34. 530. Orestes. Rome.
• a. and b. Cons. type. Two Servants.
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• 35. 539. Arion. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Bust and scrolls.
• Chapter House of Orviedo Cathedral, Spain.
• 36. 540. Justinus. Constantinople.
• a. and b. Bust and scrolls. Three medallions.
• Two servants.
• Berlin Museum.
• 37. 541. Basilius. Constantinople.
• a. Consul and Constantinople.
• Castello, Milan.
• b. Victory.
• Uffizi, Florence.

ANONYMOUS CONSULAR DIPTYCHS

• 38. V. cent.
• a. Consul and friends; above, imperial figures enthroned;
• below, barbarians.
• b. Repeated with variations.
• Cathedral Treasury, Halberstadt.
• 39. V.-VI. cent.
• a. Consul and two attendants. Below, large scene,
• leopard fight.
• b. Consul and two attendants. Below, large scene,
• lions (formerly in Cathedral Treasury).
• Bourges Museum.
• 40. V.-VI. cent. So-called Apotheosis of Romulus.
• Consul borne to Heaven in chariot.
• British Museum.
• 41. VI. cent.
• b. Bust in garland, four rosettes.
• Biblioteca Barbarini, Rome.
• 42. VI. cent. Two worn fragments of a diptych.
• Cons. type. (Later carving on back.)
• Victoria and Albert Museum.
• British Museum.
• 43. VI. cent. Bust and scrolls.
• Type of No. 12. Camel bone.
• Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
• 44. VI. cent.
• a. Cons. type, sitting.
• b. Cons. type, standing.
• Changed to St. Gregory and King David.
• Tesorio della Basilica, Monza.
• 45. VI. cent. Cons. type, changed to St. Peter.
• Library of the Metropolitan Chapter House, Prague.
• 46, 47, 48, 49. VI. cent. Five-piece diptych.
• (46) Top. Flying figures.
• (47) Bottom. Barbarians.
• Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
• (48) Top. Flying figures.
• Basle Museum.
• (49) Right side. Consul and Victory.
• Munich Library.

OFFICIAL DIPTYCHS

• 50. End of IV. or commencement of V. cent. Probianus.
• Vice-prefect of Rome.
• a. Sitting, delivering justice. Below, two litigants.
• b. Sitting with scroll. Below, two litigants.
• Berlin Library.
• 51. V.-VI. cent.
• Above, type of No. 33. Below, fight with elans.
• Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
• 52. V.-VI. cent.
• a. and b. Games in Circus (varied),
• (formerly in Basilewsky Coll.).
• Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
• 53. VI. cent.
• a. Rome carrying orb and spear.
• b. Constantinople carrying cornucopia and palm.
• Later inscription Temperancia and Castitas.
• Cabinet of Antiquities, Vienna Museum.
• 54. VI. cent.
• a. A bald man standing half under a porch.
• b. Slightly varied pose.
• Cathedral Treasury, Novara.
• 55. VI. cent. Standing figure.
• Museo Civico, Bologna.
• 56. VI. cent. Muse, standing (broken, found at Trèves).
• Berlin Museum.
• 57. VI. cent. (?)
• a. Figure, sitting.
• Cabinet of Antiquities, Vienna.
• b. Figure, standing.
• Bargello, Florence.

PRIVATE DIPTYCHS

• 58. End of IV. or commencement of V. cent.
• a. Nicomachorum. Draped figure and torch.
• Musée de Cluny, Paris.
• b. Symmachorum. Draped figure and altar.
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• 59. V.-VI. cent.
• a. Hippolytus and Phædra.
• b. Diana and Endymion.
• Museo Civico, Brescia.
• 60. VI. cent. Two registers. Dioscuri. Europa and the Bull.
• Trieste Museum.
• 61. VI. cent.
• a. Æsculapius.
• b. Hygeia.
• Mayer Collection, Liverpool.
• 62. VI. cent.
• a. Muse with lyre.
• b. Poet.
• Tesorio della Basilica, Monza.
• 63. VI. cent.
• a. and b. Authors and Muses, varied poses.
• 64. VI. cent.
• a. Bacchus Helios.
• b. Diana Lucifera
• (formerly in the Cathedral Treasury).
• Sens Museum.
• 65. VI. cent. Three registers. Apollo and the Muses
• (broken).
• Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.