Iconography of Preface and Miniature in the Byzantine Gospel Book

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xiii

List of Illustrations xv

Part I: Introduction 1

Part II: The Symbols of the Evangelists 15

1. Middle Byzantine Period 17

2. The Order of St. Jerome in the Palaeologan and

Post-Byzantine Periods 33

Part III: The Maiestas Domini 55

3. Gospel Books in Parma and Oxford 56

4. Gospel Books in Brescia and Mt. Sinai 60

5. The Influence of Prefaces 62

6. The Impact of the Liturgy 64

Part IV: The Inspired or Inspiring Evangelist 75

7. Mark and Luke 76

8. Matthew and John 82

Part V: The Origins of Greek Gospel Prefaces and Their Illustration 93

Appendix I. The Association of Symbol and Evangelist in Byzantine Art 109

Appendix II. The Evangelist Symbols of Mt. Athos, Stavronikita 43 115

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Appendix III. The Contents of Oxford, Bodl. Lib. E. D. Clarke 10, and

Parma, Bibl. Palat. 5 119

Illustrations 124

Index 157