. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. ld convent whence came themonks and all this plate. It has the same castingsas an incense-burner which was shewn us. 5. A fly-fan for bishops, set with garnets andengraved with seraphs ; dated 7115 = 1607. 6. A book of the gospels bound in silver, engravedwith figures and enriched with enamelled edges andborder. The back is formed of silver chain-mail, aninch and a half in width ^ This book it was thatsupplied us with our key to the Byzantine mode ofcomputing time, by giving the date in both
. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. ld convent whence came themonks and all this plate. It has the same castingsas an incense-burner which was shewn us. 5. A fly-fan for bishops, set with garnets andengraved with seraphs ; dated 7115 = 1607. 6. A book of the gospels bound in silver, engravedwith figures and enriched with enamelled edges andborder. The back is formed of silver chain-mail, aninch and a half in width ^ This book it was thatsupplied us with our key to the Byzantine mode ofcomputing time, by giving the date in both inscription was given me as follows by SignerTomanevic: Sie stoe Evgelie mitropolita Bjelgrad skago KirHadzi Simeona . sgradise pri svjatjeisemu patriarkaSrpskomu kir Arseniju Ij eta 7193-1685. •^ Mr. Curzon mentions a similar binding in the convent ofPantocratoras in Mount Atlios. The hack part is composed of anintricate kind of chainworJc, wJiich bends when the book is opened,and the sides are embossed with a variety of devices. ISIonasteriesof the Levant, ch. xxvi. FloLb&
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