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The New York Cruciform Lectionary

The New York Cruciform Lectionary

Anderson, Jeffrey

Hardcover

Series: College Art Association Monograph, Book 47

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral ChristianityTypography & Calligraphy

ISBN10: 0271007435
ISBN13: 9780271007434
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 30 1992
Pages: 152
Weight: 2.10
Height: 0.71 Width: 8.31 Depth: 11.31
Language: English

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.

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