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Copy of an ivory relief in Byzantine style with arabesques and bird motifs on the book cover of a Gospel Codex in the University Library of Würzburg by Johann Klipphahn (vom Beeines vergebener Titel)

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Original: 9 “6” 'height, 3 "width. Originally probably part of a reliquary or a larger library ceiling and only later used to decorate the code. “Byzanthine art of the Xth or Xth century.” Probably from the time of the Würzburg bishop Heinrich I, Count of Rotenburg (995-1018). The initials, "J.K. sc."indicate Johann Klipphahn. In: Becker, C.; Hefner-Alteneck, Jakob Heinrich von: Art and equipment of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, vol. 1, Frankfurt am Main. 1852, S. 12.
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Title: Copy of an ivory relief in Byzantine style with arabesques and bird motifs on the book cover of a Gospel Codex in the University Library of Würzburg by Johann Klipphahn (vom Beeines vergebener Titel)
Description:
Original: 9 “6” 'height, 3 "width.
Originally probably part of a reliquary or a larger library ceiling and only later used to decorate the code.
“Byzanthine art of the Xth or Xth century.
” Probably from the time of the Würzburg bishop Heinrich I, Count of Rotenburg (995-1018).
The initials, "J.
K.
sc.
"indicate Johann Klipphahn.
In: Becker, C.
; Hefner-Alteneck, Jakob Heinrich von: Art and equipment of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, vol.
1, Frankfurt am Main.
1852, S.
12.

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