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Understanding the Genesis of a Multi-Layered Byzantine Manuscript. The Illuminated Copy of Elias of Crete’s Commentary on Gregory Nazianzen (Basel, UB, AN I 8)

    Caroline Macé, Patrick Andrist

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 70, pp. 289-304, 2021/05/04

doi: 10.1553/joeb70s289


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doi:10.1553/joeb70s289



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Abstract

It has been widely agreed that the manuscript Basel, UB, AN I 8, featuring the second part of Elias of Crete’scommentary to the “unread” homilies of Gregory Nazianzen, was decorated with an impressive set of full-page illuminationsserving as frontispieces to each commentary in a second phase, sometime after the text and initial portraits had been copied.Karin Krause’s recent and well-documented article called for a re-examination of this book’s genetic history. The study herefocuses on several of its most surprising features, offering a fresh look and a hopefully more plausible explanation for theorigin and production process of these images.

Keywords: Byzantine Book Production, Book Illustration, Elias of Crete’s Commentary, Gregory Nazianzen’s Representations, Christ Emmanuel