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ON THE BRONZE DOORS OF THE CATHEDRAL OF GNESEN. 343 annexed woodcut, which represents the Emperor Otho the Second dehvering the crozier to JSt. Adalbert (in tlic fifth pannel), shows the costume of the personages of the most elevated rank, the Dukes of Poland and Bohemia being habited in the same manner. Their long and ample mantles are fastened in front, their tunics are also long, and when the wearer stands erect reach nearly to the ankle. The costume of the nobles and courtiers only differs from that of their superiors in that both tunic and mantle are shorter, neitlicr reaching below the knee. The mantle is generally fastened on the right shoulder. The swordbearers, or guards, as well as the persons of inferior rank, wear no mantles, but only tunics and hose. The heads are usually uncovered, but in some cases closely fitting caps may be intended to be repre- sented f they are, however, but obscurely indicated, and it may be doubtful whether it is not the corrosion of the metal and the consequent absence of the marks indicating hair which ^ On an early seal of Liibeck is a fijiure wearing such a cap, Kaplakcn ; stronj; cloths for caps were, in 1 '^'17, among the chief articles sent to the Hanseatic factory at Novogorod.