The Octateuchs : a study in Byzantine manuscript illustration / John Lowden
1992, 1st edition. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #423740
ISBN: 0271007710
Physical description: xix, 140 pages, [113] pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm. Contents: 1. Why Study the Octateuchs? -- 2. A Codicological Approach to Description. Vaticanus Graecus 747. Smyrna, Evangelical School A.1 (lost). Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayi Muzesi, Gr.8. Vaticanus Graecus 746. Mount Athos, Vatopedi 602 -- 3. Relationships: A Philological Approach -- 4. The Artist Copies? -- 5. The Artist Invents? -- 6. The Artist Bungles? -- 7. Model, Source, Recension, Archetype. A Model for the Octateuchs? A Source for the Octateuchs? An Octateuch Recension? An Octateuch Archetype? -- 8. Testing Hypotheses: The Joshua Roll and the "Macedonian Renaissance" -- App. I. The Octateuchs -- App. II. Diagrams of Ruling Patterns. Subjects: Bible. Old Testament Illustrations. Bible. O.T. Octateuch Illustrations. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine. Enluminure byzantine. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.
Price: €65.00