Cover illustration: Arab ambassadors to the Byzantine court of Leo VI at Constantinople are shown the liturgical vessels of Hagia Sophia, as shown in a miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes, a 12th-century manuscript from Sicily (Biblioteca Digital Hispánica: MS Graecus Vitr. 26–2, folio 144, verso).
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