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More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of the people of many lands; with reproductions from works of art and old manuscripts (1920)

Chandler, Anna Curtis · New York : H. Holt · leaf 68

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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. IVORY LEAVES OF THE CONSULAR DIPTYCH OF JUSTINIAN, CONSUL in 521 A. D. A diptych means a book of two leaves and it was customary for consuls topresent these ivory diptychs upon their election, to the Senate and their friends.All over the leaves was a thin…

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