Author: WILLOUGHBY, HAROLD R.
Title: The Four Gospels of Karahissar Volume Ii: The Cycle of Text Illustrations
Description: The University of Chicago Press, 1936. Hardcover. Former owner's name on inner cover. Mild browning to ffeps. Very light shelfwear to book. DJ is tattered with open tears & missing a few pieces but mostly complete. ; The Four Gospels of Karahissar is a thirteenth-century codex of the four Gospels in Greek, written in distinguished miniscule script, illustrated with 65 terse miniatures, and introduced by 7 elegant decorative arcades. Iconographically and stylistically its large cycle of text illustrations ranks in importance easily among the first half-dozen sequences miniatured in tetraevangelia. It stands at the very center of an extended, prominent, and singularly interesting family of medieval Greek manuscripts, very intimately related to each other and historically associated with the vicissitudes and policies of the imperial family of Byzantium. ; Volume 2 Only; Vol. 2. Near Fine in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: Byzantine Studies Greek Literature Epigraphy & Palaeography Medieval Studies Mediaeval


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