Manuscript Illuminations and Mural Paintings: Medium Interactions in Christian Egypt

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface 1
4. Translations and the Exchange of Manuscripts among Eastern Christian Communities: Textual and Material Evidence from Anti-Chalcedonian Syriac Communities in Late Antiquity 11
5. Mystic Contemplation of the Eusebian Canon Tables from Lindisfarne to Armenia 55
6. Manuscript Illuminations and Mural Paintings: Medium Interactions in Christian Egypt 75
7. Patrons, Donors and Workshops: The Making of a Syriac Lectionary 107
8. Images of Christ Emmanuel and Christus Victor in British Library Add. 19548 155
9. The Vatican al-Ṣūfī and the Library of Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Ghāfiqī al-Shārrī in Thirteenth-century Ceuta 213
10. Imaging Sanctity in Early Solomonic Ethiopia: The Portrait of ‘Qǝddus’ ʾIyasus Moʾa 251
11. Hebrew Book Art in Shared Spaces: Perpignan, c. 1300 281
12. The Ethiopian Royal Family as Commissioners of Manuscripts and the Artistic Style of the ‘Sad Eyes’ 323
13. Amir P‘ōlin between Tabriz and the Erznka Christian Brotherhood: Reassessing the Importance of Manuscript V103 (1336 CE) and its Commissioner-Copyist 357
14. The Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church in Jerusalem during the Early Solomonic Period: Evidence from Ethiopic Manuscripts 391
15. ‘Spiritual Treasure in Five Languages’: Pentaglot Biblical Manuscripts from Egypt in a Global and Transregional Perspective 425
16. Contributors 467
17. Index of Written Artefacts 469