LIST OF DIPTYCHS FROM MOLINIER
Reading edition
CONSULAR
1. About 400. [Probably] Stilicho.
a. Stilicho, standing, armed, bearded.
b. Serena and little Eucherius, standing.
Tesorio della Basilica, Monza.
2. 406. Probus. Rome.
a. Emperor Honorius, standing, armed, with standard and orb.
b. Emperor Honorius, standing, armed, with shield and spear.
Cathedral Treasury, Aosta.
3. 428. Felix. Rome.
a. Standing in trabea, bearded.
b. Standing in chlamys.
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
4. 449. Asturias. Rome.
a. Sitting on curule chair, two attendants (lost).
b. Same type (formerly at Liège).
Darmstadt Museum.
5. 487. Boethius. Rome.
a. Sitting, holding mappa.
b. Standing.
Museo Civico, Brescia.
6. 488. Sividius. Rome.
a. Inscribed medallion and scrolls.
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
b. Inscribed medallion and scrolls (lost).
7. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. Consular type. Lions.
b. Cons. type. Bears.
National Museum, Zurich.
8. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. Cons. type. Bears (Basilewsky Coll.).
Museum of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
b. (Lost.)
9. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. Cons. type. Gladiators.
b. (Lost, or possibly pair to No. 10.)
Besançon Museum.
10. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. (Lost or possibly pair to No. 9.)
b. Cons. type. Bull-fight (late Baudot Coll.).
Musée de Cluny, Paris.
11. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Crossed cornucopias.
Biblioteca, Lucca.
12. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Bust and scroll. Monogram.
Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
13. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. Same as No. 12. (Renaissance carving on back.)
Louvre, Paris.
14. 506. Areobindus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Type of No. 12, without monogram
(formerly in Treasury of St. Gaudenzio, Novara).
Museo Civico, Bologna.
15. 513. Clementinus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Cons. type. Monogram.
Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
16. 515. Anthemius. Constantinople.
a. Cons. type (lost).
(Formerly at Limoges.)
17. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
a. Cons. type. Bears.
b. Cons. type. Manumission of slaves, etc.
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
18. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
a. Cons. type (formerly at Liège).
Berlin Museum.
b. Cons. type (broken), (formerly at Liège).
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London.
19. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
b. Type of No. 18. Two Amazons and jugglers.
Chapter Library, Verona.
20. 517. Anastasius. Constantinople.
b. Lower fragment, two Amazons and tumblers.
(Formerly Coll. Jauzé, lost.)
21. 518. Magnus. Constantinople.
a. Cons. type (formerly at Leyden).
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
22. 518. Magnus. Constantinople (attributed to).
a. Type of No. 21 (camel bone).
Re-inscribed PIO PRAESULE BALDRICO IUBENTE.
Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
23. 518. Magnus. Constantinople (attributed to).
a. Type of No. 21.
Re-inscribed ARABONTI DEO VOTA (formerly Basilewsky Coll.).
Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
24. 518. Magnus. Constantinople (attributed to).
a. Type of No. 21. Changed to wrinkled old man.
Museo di Castello, Milan.
26. 521. Justinianus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Inscribed medallion, four rosettes.
Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
27. 521. Justinianus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Type of No. 26.
Collection Sigismond Bordac.
28. 521. Justinianus. Constantinople.
a. Type of No. 26 (formerly at Autun).
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
29. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Three linked medallions (formerly
in St. Corneille, Compiègne).
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
30. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Inscribed octagon with scrolls.
Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
31. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Type of No. 30.
Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
32. 525. Philoxenus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Type of No. 30 (worn).
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
33. [530?] Lampadius. Constantinople.
Consul behind cancelli. Chariot Race.
Museo Civico, Brescia.
34. 530. Orestes. Rome.
a. and b. Cons. type. Two Servants.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
35. 539. Arion. Constantinople.
a. and b. Bust and scrolls.
Chapter House of Orviedo Cathedral, Spain.
36. 540. Justinus. Constantinople.
a. and b. Bust and scrolls. Three medallions.
Two servants.
Berlin Museum.
37. 541. Basilius. Constantinople.
a. Consul and Constantinople.
Castello, Milan.
b. Victory.
Uffizi, Florence.
ANONYMOUS CONSULAR DIPTYCHS
38. V. cent.
a. Consul and friends; above, imperial figures enthroned;
below, barbarians.
b. Repeated with variations.
Cathedral Treasury, Halberstadt.
39. V.-VI. cent.
a. Consul and two attendants. Below, large scene,
leopard fight.
b. Consul and two attendants. Below, large scene,
lions (formerly in Cathedral Treasury).
Bourges Museum.
40. V.-VI. cent. So-called Apotheosis of Romulus.
Consul borne to Heaven in chariot.
British Museum.
41. VI. cent.
b. Bust in garland, four rosettes.
Biblioteca Barbarini, Rome.
42. VI. cent. Two worn fragments of a diptych.
Cons. type. (Later carving on back.)
Victoria and Albert Museum.
British Museum.
43. VI. cent. Bust and scrolls.
Type of No. 12. Camel bone.
Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
44. VI. cent.
a. Cons. type, sitting.
b. Cons. type, standing.
Changed to St. Gregory and King David.
Tesorio della Basilica, Monza.
45. VI. cent. Cons. type, changed to St. Peter.
Library of the Metropolitan Chapter House, Prague.
46, 47, 48, 49. VI. cent. Five-piece diptych.
(46) Top. Flying figures.
(47) Bottom. Barbarians.
Trivulzio Collection, Milan.
(48) Top. Flying figures.
Basle Museum.
(49) Right side. Consul and Victory.
Munich Library.
OFFICIAL DIPTYCHS
50. End of IV. or commencement of V. cent. Probianus.
Vice-prefect of Rome.
a. Sitting, delivering justice. Below, two litigants.
b. Sitting with scroll. Below, two litigants.
Berlin Library.
51. V.-VI. cent.
Above, type of No. 33. Below, fight with elans.
Mayer Collection, Liverpool Museum.
52. V.-VI. cent.
a. and b. Games in Circus (varied),
(formerly in Basilewsky Coll.).
Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
53. VI. cent.
a. Rome carrying orb and spear.
b. Constantinople carrying cornucopia and palm.
Later inscription Temperancia and Castitas.
Cabinet of Antiquities, Vienna Museum.
54. VI. cent.
a. A bald man standing half under a porch.
b. Slightly varied pose.
Cathedral Treasury, Novara.
55. VI. cent. Standing figure.
Museo Civico, Bologna.
56. VI. cent. Muse, standing (broken, found at Trèves).
Berlin Museum.
57. VI. cent. (?)
a. Figure, sitting.
Cabinet of Antiquities, Vienna.
b. Figure, standing.
Bargello, Florence.
PRIVATE DIPTYCHS
58. End of IV. or commencement of V. cent.
a. Nicomachorum. Draped figure and torch.
Musée de Cluny, Paris.
b. Symmachorum. Draped figure and altar.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
59. V.-VI. cent.
a. Hippolytus and Phædra.
b. Diana and Endymion.
Museo Civico, Brescia.
60. VI. cent. Two registers. Dioscuri. Europa and the Bull.
Trieste Museum.
61. VI. cent.
a. Æsculapius.
b. Hygeia.
Mayer Collection, Liverpool.
62. VI. cent.
a. Muse with lyre.
b. Poet.
Tesorio della Basilica, Monza.
63. VI. cent.
a. and b. Authors and Muses, varied poses.
64. VI. cent.
a. Bacchus Helios.
b. Diana Lucifera
(formerly in the Cathedral Treasury).
Sens Museum.
65. VI. cent. Three registers. Apollo and the Muses
(broken).
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.