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Item Number: 126032
Title: The Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 9.28. The Map of the Universe Redrawn in the Sixth Century : with a contribution on the slavic recensions
Author: Anderson, Jeffrey C. (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788863724028
Description: Roma: Storia e Letteratura, 2013. 30cm., pbk., 118pp., 80pp. plates, 68 in color. Summary: The Christian Topography was composed near the middle of the sixth century of our era. Its author set out to replace the classical conception of the universe with a radically different one that could accomodate the handful of biblical references to the terrestrial and heavenly worlds as well as everyday experience. The Florence manuscript, attributed to the middle of the eleventh century, is one of only three surviving witnesses to the entire Greek text with illustrations. This first complete publication of the manuscript sets out the history of the book, its physical structure, the work of its scribe and that of subsequent annotators. The illuminator and his contribution are examined, as are the materials used in painting the miniatures. The diagrams and illustrations, all reproduced in color, are described and their inscriptions transcribed. Final essays are devoted to the intellectual milieu in which the text as created and a framework for the study of illustrated Slavic versions. (Folia Picta, Manoscritti miniati medievali, 3)
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