1. Pere Julià was stationed at the Great Palace with Genoese and Catalan troops; Cardinal Isidore of Kiev guarded the tip of the peninsula near the boom.

2. From post-classical Latin Abreption-, abreptio action of snatching away (636 in Isidore; also in an undated inscription) from classical Latin abrept-, past participial stem of abripere + -iō.

3. ‘He was preceded by a handful of Annalists, notably Hydatius in Galicia, and followed, among others, by Gregory of Tours and Fredegar in Francia, Isidore in Spain, Bede in Northumbria, and Paul the Deacon in Italy.’

4. Title: Horse Caparisoned Creator: Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils Date Created: circa 1860 Physical Dimensions: 45.0 x 43.9 cm stretcher; 63.5 x 62.5 x 7.5 cm frame Provenance: Edouard Levi Montefiore, Paris/France, Gift of Edward L