Hermēneia tēs zōgraphikēs technēs / [hypo] Dionysiou ho ek Phourna.

Author
Dionysios, of Fourna, approximately 1670-approximately 1745 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Modern Greek (1453-)
Published/​Created
between 1800-1850.
Description
[104] leaves : paper ; 223 x 160 mm

Copies in the Library

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Firestone Library - Stacks Request
    Special Collections - Manuscripts C0879 (Princeton Greek MS. 172) Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Summary note
      The painter's manual of Dionysios of Fourna. This is a post-Byzantine manuscript, written in Greek script in black ink, which contains introductory sections on icon painting techniques and describes hundreds of figures of saints, Old and New Testament events, parables, feast days, and decorations of churches.
      Notes
      • Ms. codex.
      • Physical description: 31-33 lines a page; 4to; collation: Α18 Β-Γ32 [Δ]22: [104] folios. Folios are missing at the beginning (12) and the end (10) of the manuscript, as well as between A7 and A8 queries (2); without pagination or foliation. Titles and elaborate initial letters in red ink.
      • Text begins as follows: "[...]on anthrakophoron la/[...] en tē aristera vastōn charti ..." and ends: "... To hagion Mandyl[...].
      Source acquisition
      Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
      OCLC
      1375241806
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