Chapter I: Preface

This little book can do no more than humbly touch the fringe of a large subject; but if it leads the reader to a further study of this beautiful craft, it will have amply fulfilled its duty.

I must express my deep obligation to the magnificent volume on ivories by M. Emile Molinier, whose masterly arrangement of a very fragmentary and scattered subject is a model of lucidity; and also to Dr. Hans Graeven, whose scholarly researches and excellent photographs are indispensable for a real study of the craft.

A. M. CUST.
_December, 1901._

CONTENTS

PAGE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiii
BIBLIOGRAPHY xvii

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