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Title: Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Art
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press
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ere was a Christian church at Parenzo on thesame site before the present duomo was built, butunless the low groined building at A on the ground-plan (Fig. 106) is a fragment of an older church, notraces remain above ground of anything precedentto the work of Euphrasius the first bishop. About535 he began to build his cathedral church, and the Ch. XXXI.) Parenzo: the Diloiuo. 11 date of its completionis supposed to be fixedin 543 by a documentwhich has descended toour own time, thoughunluckily not in a per- \feet state, referring to Han endowment or con-firming a previous en-dowment of the churchof St. Mary and St.Maurus. It beginsthus^:—Flavins Jus-tinianus heing emjye-ror, in the sixteenthyear of his i^eign . . .ive Euphrasius hy thegrace of God bishop ofthe church of Parenzo. . . hy will and com-mand of Constantiusand Laurentius, legatesof the emperor Justi-nian . .. in presence ofthe clergy and peopleof Parenzo, Claudiusour archdeacon, Max-imus our archpriest,Andreas abbot of St.
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PARENZO Iljr. 106. ^ Dr. Kandler, Cenni, &c. He unfoitunately does not cite it inthe original Latin, but translates it into Italian. 312 Parenzo: the Diiomo. (Ch. xxxi. John, &c., &c. What follows is the endowmentof a chapter, and can only by implication be under-stood to refer to the building of a new church.This, however, is positively claimed as the workof Bishop Euphrasius by the following inscriptionof four lines in the mosaic of the great apse ^:— + HOCFVITINPRIMIS TEMPLVM • QVASSANTERV1N>\-TERRIBILIS • LABSVNECCERTOROBOREFIRMVM-EXI GVVn MAGNO QVECARENS -TVNCFVRMAMETALLO j* .. SEDMERITISTANTVA/VPENDEBANT PVTRIATECTA+VTVIDIT5VBIT0LABSVRA/A • PONDERE- SEDEA^-PROVIDVSETFIDEIFERVENS • ARDORE • SACERDVS-EVFRASIVSSCAPRECESSIT • ; ^ErsTERVINAM- LABENTES /^UVSSEDITVRAS • DERVITAEDES-FVNDAnENTALOCANS • EREXIT • CVLMINA TEMPLI+ QVA5 CERNIS • NVPER • VARIO ■ FVLGERE • METALLOPERFICIEN5 COEPTV^DECORAVIT iAVNEREAAGNp-AECCLESIAM VOCITANS • SIGNAVIT

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