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BRILL eBooks, Mar 18, 2020
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
The British Library has sixty-six Gospel books and seventy-two Gospel lectionaries, spread amongs... more The British Library has sixty-six Gospel books and seventy-two Gospel lectionaries, spread amongst its various collections of manuscripts. Gospels are by far the most numerous type of Byzantine book to have survived, not just in the British Library, but in all libraries. In surveying these British Library books for my doctoral thesis I was struck by the extent to which, far from resembling one another, they contained many unusual or unique features. This article considers a small number of such Gospel manuscripts, and argues that they were not merely intended to be read in a public or private context, but in addition could function as reliquary-like receptacles, containing holy material. In some cases the presence of this holy material was clear, but in other cases it was disguised or hidden, so that the book’s user had to work in order to find or understand it. An element of cryptographic investigation will therefore be important to my argument. A sixth-century hagiography records ...
Illuminating the Middle Ages
A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts
BRILL eBooks, Mar 18, 2020
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
The British Library has sixty-six Gospel books and seventy-two Gospel lectionaries, spread amongs... more The British Library has sixty-six Gospel books and seventy-two Gospel lectionaries, spread amongst its various collections of manuscripts. Gospels are by far the most numerous type of Byzantine book to have survived, not just in the British Library, but in all libraries. In surveying these British Library books for my doctoral thesis I was struck by the extent to which, far from resembling one another, they contained many unusual or unique features. This article considers a small number of such Gospel manuscripts, and argues that they were not merely intended to be read in a public or private context, but in addition could function as reliquary-like receptacles, containing holy material. In some cases the presence of this holy material was clear, but in other cases it was disguised or hidden, so that the book’s user had to work in order to find or understand it. An element of cryptographic investigation will therefore be important to my argument. A sixth-century hagiography records ...
Illuminating the Middle Ages
A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts