New York Cruciform Lectionary

Name: New York Cruciform Lectionary
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ISBN: 9780271007434

ISBN-10: 0271007435

ISBN-13: 9780271007434

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jeffrey Anderson

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For elegance and beauty, the Constantinopolitan scribes set standards rarely surpassed. The Gospel lectionary was among the books that attracted the most enthusiastic attention of scribes, illuminators, and their patrons. As an important liturgical item, the lectionary was often exquisitely decorated. The subject of this study, the lectionary in the Pierpont Morgan Library, is unusual even among such luxury manuscripts because its scribe laboriously copied every page of text in the shape of a cross. It is one of just three such manuscripts made in Constantinople around the middle of twelfth century, and it is the only one that contains narrative illustration.Jeffery Anderson provides a full…

Book details

List price: $105.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 1/30/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 2.706
Language: English

Jeffrey D. Anderson is an associate professor of anthropology at Colby College and the author ofOne Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life Story(Nebraska 2003).