Menologion bizantino de Oxford (Ms. Gr. th. f.1).
A series of miniatures of events in the lives of Saints, one for every day in the year from Sept. 2 to Aug. 31, arranged in groups of four on a page: [two leaves (Feb. 6-20) are wanting after fol. 27]. Preceding them are ten full-page miniatures of the Life of Christ, four more having been lost afte...
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| Language: | Ancient Greek |
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Madrid : Oxford :
A. y N. Ediciones ; Biblioteca Bodleian,
2006.
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| Summary: | A series of miniatures of events in the lives of Saints, one for every day in the year from Sept. 2 to Aug. 31, arranged in groups of four on a page: [two leaves (Feb. 6-20) are wanting after fol. 27]. Preceding them are ten full-page miniatures of the Life of Christ, four more having been lost after fol. 3, and after them, on foll. 54v, 55r, are seven miniatures from the Life of Demetrius. An iambic poem of 24 lines explains that the volume was painted for the the help and consolation of Demtrius' soul. This Demetrius was perhaps a son of Demetrius Angelus Comnenus Ducas, who married a daughter of Michael Palaeologus, and lived in the middle of the 14th century. Cf. Summary catalog of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 1922, v. 2, pt. 1, p. 549-550. |
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| Item Description: | Full-color facsimile of Menologion bizantino de Oxford MS. Gr. th. f. 1, in Ancient Greek, written and illuminated in the 14th century by Demetrius. Title from colophon pasted on fly-leaf at end of facsimile. Commentary by Irmgard Hutter. Facsimile issued in a limited numbered edition of 995 copies, and 75 copies in Roman numbers and red ink not for sale, to be distributed to the Spanish Book Catalogue, collaborators and specialist institutions. Facsimile issued in brown leather case (26 cm). Original indexed in: (Summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 2919) ; (Corpus der byzantinischen Minaturenhandschriften, Bd. 2, p. 1). |
| Physical Description: | 60 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 14 cm, in box 26 x 23 cm + 1 commentary (233 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 36 cm) |
| Bibliography: | Commentary Includes bibliographical references and index of illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9788493612900 8493612901 9788493612917 849361291X 9788493538897 8493538892 |