Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . (2Sa) IVORV CARVING . ONE LEAF OF THE DlpTYCHON MILLERETE N S E - _ H . IhJ (11., W +J («. (iv? 2IEJ6?) »vvise. FECI LEAF OF A DIPTYCH. IVORY. No. 212 1865. A NYTHING doubled or doubly folded is a diptych ; and the term was**? commonly applied anciently to the tablets used for writing on withmetallic or ivory styles. Sometimes these tablets had three leaves, some-times five or more. In the first case they were then called triptychs, in theother pentaptychs or polyptych
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . (2Sa) IVORV CARVING . ONE LEAF OF THE DlpTYCHON MILLERETE N S E - _ H . IhJ (11., W +J («. (iv? 2IEJ6?) »vvise. FECI LEAF OF A DIPTYCH. IVORY. No. 212 1865. A NYTHING doubled or doubly folded is a diptych ; and the term was**? commonly applied anciently to the tablets used for writing on withmetallic or ivory styles. Sometimes these tablets had three leaves, some-times five or more. In the first case they were then called triptychs, in theother pentaptychs or polyptychs. Examples of arrangements of both theselast kinds are to be seen in the shrines of the middle ages. When intended for writing-tablets the back of each leaf of the diptychwas generally slightly hollowed in order to receive the wax for writing not always ; other modes (by a separate frame, for instance, attached tothe leaves) were also used to preserve the wax from injury. We are there-fore not to conclude that ivory diptychs so large as this were not intendedfor writing-tablets, or for the p
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