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Illustrations from Muslim Influenced, Norman and Lombard Southern Italy and Sicily

Lombards in an Exultet Beneventano Roll, Southern Italy, 10th Century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Ms. Vat. Lat. 9820.
Charlemagne and Pippin the Hunchback, Southern Italy, 10th century. Biblioteca Capitolare, Modena, Cod. 01.2, f.164v.
Hunter on an ivory drinking horn, Muslim Sicily or southern Italy, 11th century.
Lombard Arms & Costume in an 11th Century copy of the Encyclopedia of Maurus Hrabanus or De rerum naturis
'Codex Legum Longobardorum' (Book of Lombard Law) and 'Capitularia Regum Francorum', 11th century, Abbey Cava de Tirreni, Campania, Italy.
Lombard soldier in an 11th Century Exultet Roll, Museo Civico, Pisa
Relief, Arrest of Jesus, mid-11th century AD, south Italian, Tomba di Rotari, Monte San Angelo
Saint Benedict frees a prisoner, Lombard, c.1070, Monte Cassino, Southern Italy
‘Centurion at the Crucifixion’, Exultet Roll from Monte Cassino, Campania, Italy, c.1075-1080. British Library Add MS 30337.
Frieze over the door of the Church of San Bernadetto, Brindisi, late 11th Century.
'Charlemagne's chess set', Southern Italy, end of the eleventh century. Paris Cabinet des médailles
A turbaned, mail-clad warrior on a carved ivory horn or 'Oliphant' of St. Hubert, Amalfi?, Italy, late 11th-early 12th century. Musée Crozatier, Le Puy, France.
Ivory casket, Fatimid Sicily or Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries. Pergamon.
Morgan Casket, Southern Italy, 11th-12th century.
Knights & infantry in Archivolt carvings above the Leoni door of the church of San Nicola in Bari, Italy, 1099 to 1106 AD
Italo-Norman carvings around the west door of the church of San Nicola in Bari, Italy, 1099 to 1106 AD
Soldiers on Ivory Altar Panels, Sicilian or south Italian, 1100-1150 AD. Museo Diocesano, Salerno.
Exultet Roll from Fondi, Campania, Italy, 1136AD, BnF NAL 710
Islamic Sicilian Ivory Casket with Horsemen, 12th century. Bargello.
Mounted Hunters on a Sicilian ivory pyxis, 12th century. Louvre, France.
12th century Arabic & Frankish costume in the Painted Wooden Ceiling of the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily.
Saracen Archers and Negro Infantry on Bronze Doors made by Barisano da Trani at Trani, Ravello and Monreale Cathedrals, Italy, 1170s
Carved Column Capitals in the Cloister of Monreale Cathedral near Palermo in Sicily, 1174 to 1182 AD
Byzantine influenced figures on a lamp or burner in shape of domed building, Sicily or Southern Italy, late 12th century. Treasury of San Marco, Venice.
Sicilians & Germans in the Liber ad honorem Augusti by Pietro da Eboli, c.1197.
Bas Relief in the lunette of the portal of the Church of Saint Sofia in Benevento, Italy, early 13th century.
Sicilian Ivory Casket with Hunters, Cappella Palatina, Palermo, 12th or 13th Century.
Islamic Sicilian Ivory Casket with Horsemen, Veroli, Italy, c.1200-1225.
Sicilian Ivory Pyxis with Equestrian Falconers, Italy, 13th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Wooden Painted Ceiling of the Palazzo Chiaromonte-Steri in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 1377–1380AD



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