CHAPTER I. CONSULAR AND OTHER SECULAR DIPTYCHS 1 CHAPTER II. LATIN AND BYZANTINE IVORIES 37 I. Latin and Latino-Byzantine and the Early Byzantine Ivories 37 II. Byzantine Caskets 75 III. The Byzantine Renaissance 84 CHAPTER III. LOMBARDIC, ANGLO-SAXON, CARLOVINGIAN AND GERMAN IVORIES 96 I. Lombard Ivory Carvings 96 II. Anglo-Saxon Ivory Carvings 99 III. The Carlovingian Renaissance 106 IV. German Ivory Carving in the time of the Ottos 118 CHAPTER IV. ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC IVORIES 129 LIST OF DIPTYCHS 157 LIST OF PLACES WHERE IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF IVORIES CAN BE FOUND 165 INDEX 167 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. PAGE 1. AN ANGEL. Leaf of a Diptych. Fifth century. Byzantine _British Museum, London_ _Frontispiece_ 2. SECOND LEAF OF THE DIPTYCH OF PROBIANUS, VICE-PREFECT OF ROME. End of fourth century _Berlin Library_ 8 3. FIRST LEAF OF THE DIPTYCH OF PROBUS, CONSUL AT ROME, 406 A.D. _Duomo, Aosta_ 9 4. FIRST LEAF OF THE DIPTYCH OF ORESTES, CONSUL AT ROME, 530 A.D. _Victoria and Albert Museum, London_ 14 5. LEAF OF THE DIPTYCH OF AMALASUNTHA(?) Sixth Century. Italian _Bargello, Florence_ 30 6. ADAM IN THE TERRESTRIAL PARADISE, AND SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ST. PAUL. Leaves of a Diptych. Fifth century. Italian _Bargello, Florence_ 41 7 & 8. TWO PLAQUES, THE CRUCIFIXION and CHRIST LEAVING THE PRÆTORIUM. Fifth century. Italian _British Museum_ 46, 47 9. PYX WITH THE SCENE OF CHRIST HEALING THE PARALYTIC. Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine _Musée de Cluny, Paris_ 51 10. COVER OF A BOOK OF THE GOSPELS (from S. Michele di Murano). Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine _Ravenna Museum_ 53 11. COVER OF A BOOK OF THE GOSPELS, with three scenes from the Nativity (from Metz Cathedral). Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine _Bibliothèque nationale, Paris_ 57 12. FRONT OF THE IVORY THRONE OF ST. MAXIMIAN, with St. John Baptist and the Four Evangelists. Sixth century. Byzantine _Duomo, Ravenna_ 59