1. Erwin Margulies, “Le Manteau impérial du Trésor de Vienne et sa doublure,” Gazette des Beaux Arts ser. 6, 9 (1933), pp. 360ff.; Ugo Monneret de Villard, “Le tessitura palermitana sotto i normanni e i suoi rapporti con larte bizantina,” Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati, 1 (Vatican City, 1946), pp. 464ff.; Hermann Fillitz, Die Insignien und Kleinodien des Heiligen Römischen Reiches (Vienna: A. Scholl, 1954), pp. 23ff, 57f.; Filippo Pottino, “Le vesti regali normanne dette dellincoronazione,” Atti del convegno internazionale di studi ruggeriani, 21–25 aprile 1954, 1 (Palermo, 1955), pp. 291ff.; Josef Deér, The Dynastic Porphyry Tombs of the Norman Period in Sicily (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1959), pp. 40ff.; Tarif Al Samman, “Arabische Inschriften auf den Krönungsgewandern des Heiligen Römischen Reiches,” Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 78 (1982), pp. 7ff.; Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasuries: Illustrated Guide (Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1991), pp. 136ff; David Jacoby, “Silk in Western Byzantium Before the Fourth Crusade,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 84/85 (1991/92), pp. 464ff; Rotraud Bauer, “Il manto di Ruggero II,” I normanni, popolo d’Europa 1030–1200 (exhibition catalogue), ed. Mario D’Onofrio (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1994), pp. 279ff.; William Tronzo, The Cultures of His Kingdom. Roger II and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 142ff; Oleg Grabar, “The So-Called Mantle of Roger II,” in “The Experience of Islamic Art,” forthcoming. I am grateful to Professor Grabar for allowing me to read his paper before publication.
2. Henry Maguire, “The Heavenly Court,” Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204, ed. Maguire (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1997), pp. 253f.
3. See, for example, Eduard Eichmann, “Von der Kaisergewandung im Mittelalter,” Historisches Jahrbuch 58 (1938), pp. 273ff.; Sakrale Gewänder des Mittelalters, Ausstellung im bayerischen Nationalmuseum, München, 8. Juli bis 25 September 1955 (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1955); Percy Ernst Schramm and Florentine Mutherich, Denkmale der deutschen Könige und Kaiser: Ein Beitrag zur Herrscherge schichte von Karl dem Grossen bis Friedrich II. 768–1250 (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1962), pp. 44ff.; Die Zeit der Staufer, 1 (1977), pp. 607ff., 5, pp. 389ff.; Anna Muthesius, Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving (London: The Pindar Press, 1995), passim; Guido Fauro, “Le vesti nel ‘De ceremoniis aulae byzantinae’ di Costantino VII Porfirogenito,” in Arte profana e arte sacra a bisanzio, ed. Antonio Jacobini and Enrico Zanini (Rome, 1995), pp. 489ff. For a textile attributed to Palermo with the inscription, “operato in regio ergast [erio],” see Federico e la sicilia: dalla terra alla corona. Arti figurative e arti suntuarie (exhibition catalogue), ed. Maria Andaloro (Palermo: Ediprint, 1995), p. 99, figs. 13.1–13.2.
4. Hermann Fillitz, Die Schatzkammer in Wien. Symbole abendländischen Kaisertums (Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1986), fig. 5.
5. For a recent discussion with bibliography, see Hans Rudolf Meier, Die normannischen Königspaläste in Palermo. Studien zur hochmittelalterlichen Residenzbaukunst (Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994). Bauer, above, n. 2, relates these buildings to the mantle but with a different purpose.