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Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia : Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers /

Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the Mediterranean. Their significance as vehicles for the transmission of visual and textual knowledge is well known. Less understood, particularly when it c...

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Other Authors: Bausi, Alessandro (Contributor), Bongianino, Umberto (Contributor), Crawford, Matthew R. (Contributor), Dege-Müller, Sophia (Contributor, Editor), Forness, Philip Michael (Contributor), Gnisci, Jacopo (Contributor, Editor), Grigoryan, Gohar (Contributor), Immerzeel, Mat (Contributor), Karlsson, Jonas (Editor), Kogman-Appel, Katrin (Contributor), Maarten van Lint, Theo (Contributor), Pacha Miran, François (Contributor), Pisani, Vitagrazia (Contributor, Editor), Suciu, Alin (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures , 46
Subjects:
Global.
Handschriftenkunde.
Illumination.
Mittelalter.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Middle Ages.
global.
illumination.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Translations and the Exchange of Manuscripts among Eastern Christian Communities: Textual and Material Evidence from Anti-Chalcedonian Syriac Communities in Late Antiquity
  • Mystic Contemplation of the Eusebian Canon Tables from Lindisfarne to Armenia
  • Manuscript Illuminations and Mural Paintings: Medium Interactions in Christian Egypt
  • Patrons, Donors and Workshops: The Making of a Syriac Lectionary
  • Images of Christ Emmanuel and Christus Victor in British Library Add. 19548
  • The Vatican al-Ṣūfī and the Library of Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Ghāfiqī al-Shārrī in Thirteenth-century Ceuta
  • Imaging Sanctity in Early Solomonic Ethiopia: The Portrait of 'Qǝddus' ʼIyasus Moʼa
  • Hebrew Book Art in Shared Spaces: Perpignan, c. 1300
  • The Ethiopian Royal Family as Commissioners of Manuscripts and the Artistic Style of the 'Sad Eyes'
  • Amir P'ōlin between Tabriz and the Erznka Christian Brotherhood: Reassessing the Importance of Manuscript V103 (1336 CE) and its Commissioner-Copyist
  • The Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church in Jerusalem during the Early Solomonic Period: Evidence from Ethiopic Manuscripts
  • 'Spiritual Treasure in Five Languages': Pentaglot Biblical Manuscripts from Egypt in a Global and Transregional Perspective
  • Contributors
  • Index of Written Artefacts