jj b o K o v CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY; OK, THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART IN THE MIDDLE AGES. BY THE LATE ADOLPHE NAPOLEON DIDROK 'BANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY E. J. MILLINGTON, AND COMPLETED WITH ADDITIONS AND APPENDICES MARGARET STOKES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. THE HISTORY OF THE NIMBUS, THE AUREOLE, AND THE GLORY; REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1886. N v.\ COO. I LONDON PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD 3TBEET AND CHARING CROSS. PUBLISHEKS' NOTE. THE first volume of the work in its form following English has been before the public for many years ; but, though published in the expectation that the French work would ultimately be completed in accordance with the scheme laid down by M. Didron in his introduction, the fact that he did not fully carry out the original plan led to the English version remaining a fragment. Much material was no doubt in the author's possession at the time of his death, and a large number of illustrations had been prepared for the continuation of the work ; but, beyond a few sheets of printed matter, concluding the history of the Trinity, which were not included in the first volume of the trans- lation, and various papers in some archaeological journals, in the of a continuation nothing shape appeared during the lifetime of M. Didron. The hope expressed by the author at the close of his chapter on the Iconography of the Trinity that, the path having once been opened, other investigators would carry on the work of study and observation, has remained without an apparent result, and the history of the Angels, of the Devil, of the persons and scenes of the Old Testament, of the Gospel, and of mediaeval legend has remained unwritten. Unwilling to leave matters in this unsatisfactoiy state, the publishers called in the aid of Miss Margaret Stokes, who was already known as an accomplished student and writer in this branch of art, to carry on the work. It is difficult for the reader to the labour appreciate great which was demanded and the which was knowledge requisite for such a task, involving as it did the identi- fication of a large number of illustrations which M. Didron iv PUBLISHERS' NOTE. had and the of the sources already prepared, recognition from which they had been derived. But, this laborious work having been accomplished, the reader may feel confidence that, with the help of some of the author's published papers, Miss Stokes has been able to carry on the treatise on the lines that were laid down originally for it. Further details to this continuation and relating to the which have been added will be found appendices in their in the volume. places