Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 364
?- costumes is characteristic of the fashions introduced by the Byzantinecourt from about the time of Theodosius, while the costumes of priests point toa similar oriental origin.2 If, then, they are original, and not due to early restora-tions, it is not easy to place them earlier than the fifth… … Fig. 205. Interior of S. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna : sixth century. (Alinari.) than those of the arch, recalling the oldest known illustrated MSS. of the Bible,which, though not earlier than the fifth century, must certainly have had proto-types of an earlier date. In view of these facts two…
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