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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: Grado, Island of Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) Dalmatia (Croatia) Croatia -- Slavonia Montenegro
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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re 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.) Pareuzo: the Dtcomo. 311 date of its completionis supposed to be fixedin 543 by a documentwhich has descended toour own time, thoughunluckily not in a per-fect state, referring toan endowment or con-firming a previous en-dowment of the churchof St. Mary and St.Maurus. It beginsthus^:—■Flavins Jus-tinianus heing empe-ror, in the sixtee7ithyear of his reign . . .we Euiohrasius hy thegrace of God hisho2^ ofthe church of Parenzo. . . hy will and com-Tnand of Constcmtiusand Laurentius, legatesof the emperor Justi-nian . .. in presence ofthe clergy and peopleof Parenzo, Claudiusour archdeacon, Max-iynus our archpriest,Andreas abbot of St.
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PARENZO Fig. 106. ^ Dr. Kandler, Cenni, &c. He unfortunately does not cite it inthe original Latin, but translates it into Italian. 312 Parenzo: the Dtiomo. (Ch, xxxi. John, ko,., &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 ^ :— + HOCFVITINPRIMJS TEMPLVM • QVASSANTERVINA.-TERRIBILIS • LABSVNECCERTOROBORE-nRMVM-EXIGVVM MAGNO QVECARENS -TVNCFVRMAAVETALLO -<•.. SEDnERITISTANTV/APENDEBANT PVTRIATECTA+VTVIDITSVB1T0LABSVRAM- PONDERE-SEDEivv-PROVIDVSETFIDEIFERVENS -ARDORE • SACERDVS-EVFRASIVSSCAPRECESSIT • yvErTERviNAn- LABENTES AEUVSSEDITVRAS • DERVlTAEDES-FVNDAnENTALOCANS • EREXIT- CVLMINA TEMPLI+ QVA5 • CERNIS • NVPER • VARl0 • FVLGERE • METALLOPERFICIEN5 COEPTVyVDECORAVlT nVNERE AVAGNO-AECCLESIAM VOCFTANS • SIGNAVIT- NOMINE

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