Unless otherwise specified, all ivory is elephant ivory. Nearly all Gothic ivories carry some traces of polychromy, whether actual remains, stains left by some copper-based pigments, or shadows from different exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.
Measurements are given as height × length × thickness unless otherwise noted.
All translations are my own unless otherwise noted.
Biblical citations are taken from the Douay-Rheims English translation of the Vulgate, and all Latin biblical excerpts are from the Vulgate. Psalm numbers follow the Vulgate.
In the kingdom of France and in many closely allied territories, money of account (denominations used in reckoning, not necessarily circulating coinage) was calculated in both livres tournois and livres parisis, and the exchange rate between these two systems fluctuated. In both systems, 1 livre = 20 sous = 240 deniers (abbreviated as l., s., d.).
Weight differed by place: 1 livre de Paris = 489.5 g.
In the Île-de-France, Picardy, and Flanders, the date of the year typically changed at Easter, a moveable feast. All dates in the text are given as new style (n.s.) – that is, corrected to begin on 1 January.
