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'Analyzes the history, materials, design and conservation of a set of silk vestments (Cagliari, cath.S.Maria, museo capitolare) with applied patches of historiated Chinese (T'ang dynasty) silk, and north African textiles with geometric patterns. The garments have been traditionally held to be the burial clothes of S.Augustine. Dates them to be 10th-11th cs., and refutes the hypothesis that they belonged to the saint. Proposes that the silk was imported to Algeria from China, made into liturgical vestments (in Algeria), and sent on to Cagliari. Discusses commercial contacts between Sardegna, Africa and China' (BHA).
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