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The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint, Volume II: The Byzantine Octateuchs (only Plates volume)

by: Weitzmann, K. Bernabo, M.

Price: 495,00 EURO

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Category: Byzantium / History / Art / Archaeology
Code: 9434
ISBN-13: 9780691007229 / 978-0-691-00722-9
ISBN-10: 0691007225 / 0-691-00722-5
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1999
Publication Place: New Jersey
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very good
Comments: Only the Plates volume / 1552 Plates

ONLY PLATES VOLUME (TEXT VOLUME IS MISSING)

 

Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery, Codex 602 Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Codex Pluteus 5.38 Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayi Library, Codex G.I.8 Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Vaticanus Graecus 746, 747. Smyrna (Olim), Evangelical School Library, Codex A.I.

About the Author:
Kurt Weitzmann, who died in 1993, was Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Massimo Bernabò is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Università degli Studi in Florence.

 

This extraordinary two-volume work--the culmination of decades of research--presents the dazzling array of miniatures that appear in the six extant Byzantine Octateuchs (the first eight books of the Old Testament) and the Vatican Joshua Roll. Each of the 1,552 miniatures in these tenth- to thirteenth-century manuscripts is reproduced at close to actual size on 464 large-format plates. The illustrations are organized by Old Testament episode, so that the various depictions of each biblical scene can be easily studied and compared. An annotated catalogue describes all of the miniatures in each of the Octateuch manuscripts, from the creation of the world to the story of Ruth, and provides a full bibliography of every scene. Three analytical chapters investigate the origin of the iconography of the Octateuchs, the formation and later development of the cycle of the illustrations, and the codicology, history, and style of each of the extant Byzantine manuscripts. Kurt Weitzmann and Massimo Bernabò draw on their many years of study of illustrated biblical texts to demonstrate that the Octateuch miniatures stem from a wide variety of sources--including Christian and Jewish manuscripts and monumental paintings--and that a surprising number of them follow the parallel but more highly colored narratives of Early Christian and Jewish literature, rather than the canonical texts of the Octateuchs themselves. The authors also reveal that these illustrations provide a pictorial commentary on the Scripture that is at times completely independent from the text of the catena and reflects unorthodox interpretations of biblical passages drawn primarily from the intellectual milieu of Early Christian Syria.

 

Subjects:
Bibel Altes Testament
Bible. Joshua
Bible. Joshua Illustrations
Bible. Old Testament
Bible. Old Testament Illustrations
Bible. Old Testament Manuscripts, Greek Facsimiles
Bible. Old Testament Octateuch Illustrations
Bible. Old Testament. Greek Versions Septuagint
Bilderhandschrift
Buchmalerei
Byzantinisches Reich
Enluminure byzantine
Enluminure paléochrétienne
Facsimiles
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Illumination of books and manuscripts Specimens
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Early Christian
Illuminierte Handschrift
Illustrated works
Katalog
Kunst
Manuscripts, Greek
Manuscripts, Greek Facsimiles
Manuscrits grecs Fac-similés
Miniature (Peinture) médiévale
Miniature painting Reproduction
Miniature painting, Medieval
Oktateuch
Painting, Byzantine
Peinture byzantine
Septuaginta
Specimens
Verzeichnis

 

 
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The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint, Volume II: The Byzantine Octateuchs (only Plates volume)

by: Weitzmann, K. Bernabo, M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780691007229 / 978-0-691-00722-9
  • ISBN-03: 0691007225 / 0-691-00722-5
  • Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1999

Price: 495,00 EURO

1 copy in stock