A Tenth-Century Ivory with the ResponseAspiciens a Longe
Rosalie B. Green
Among the ivories from Museum in Darmstadt is early tenth-century relief illustrated Figure I.1 It consists of two long, narrow panels, stylistically identical, but not meant to stand beside each other relationship given by sixteenth-century metal frame. Goldschmidt suggests that they were originally front and back covers a book — at present together make cover an eleventh-century Gospels may have been Sacramentary. An examination sources parallels gives somewhat different conclusion on second point provides new interpretation subject matter.
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