Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 576
ch leaf. The treasury of St. Giovanni in Laterano contains a cross-reliquary whichhas lost its enamels, but retains some cloisonne pastes like those of the Poitiersand Limburg reliquaries and the Venice book-cover; the back has an embossedcross recalling that in the Louvre (Fig. 343).l The same… … Fig. 33* Cover of a silver reliquary of the eleventh century at Halberstadt : St. Demetrius.(Seniumberger : Hachette.) Venice two of the book-covers have plain silver borders with cabochon gemsand rows of pearls,3 and one has the border of orfevrerie doisonnee alreadymentioned (p. 515). The two…
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