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Subject(s)

• Bible Gospels Greek [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)—Italy—Florence—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Bible Gospels—Illustrations [Browse]
• Biblioteca medicea laurenziana Manuscript Plut. 6, cod. 23—Illustrations [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Greek—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Editor

• Ravasi, Gianfranco [Browse]
• Velmans, Tania [Browse]

Issuing body

• Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana [Browse]

Related name

• Biblioteca medicea laurenziana. Manuscript. Plut. 6, cod. 23. [Browse]

Summary note

Facsimile edition description: "Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Laurentian Gospels: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding."--Facsimile Finder website.

Notes

• Title from sheet pasted to inside back cover of facsimile.
• Manuscript book description: "Especially renowned among specialists of Byzantine art, the Laurentian Gospels--also known as the Laurentian Tetraevangelion--is a treasury of late eleventh-century illustrations. The codex constitutes one of the richest surviving pictorial repertoires of Byzantine Gospel illumination. Bound in a luxurious Medici binding of the sixteenth century, the manuscript presents the four Gospels prefaced by three pages of canon tables and the Eusebian letter to Carpian."--Facsimile Finder website.
• Manuscript book description: "In addition to the glorious evangelist portraits introducing each of the four Gospels, the book is densely illuminated with more than 280 narrative scenes. Painted in fresh, bright colors, the images are generously highlighted in gold. While the Gospel book boasts dazzling canon table pages, exquisitely decorated headpieces and initials, and first-rate full-page evangelist portraits, its greatest artistic significance lies in the miniatures found on many of its text pages. Spanning the width of the text column, these images are unframed narrative scenes arranged as illustrated bands that visually unfold the Gospel narratives from left to right as if they were a line of text. The number of miniatures differs for each Gospel, and some leaves are decorated with as many as three miniatures. [Illuminations: 3 canon table pages; 4 full-page miniatures; 4 decorated headpieces, 4 large decorated initials, 285 narrative miniatures]."--Facsimile Finder website.
• Manuscript book description: "The varying height of the illustrations shows that the creation of the manuscript necessitated close coordination and planning to make room for images during the transcription of the text. Several scribes were probably involved in penning the careful minuscule, emphasizing the grand scale of this undertaking. Although much of the Gospels are written in light brown ink, each verse begins with a gold initial, and the chapter headings are entirely in gold."--Facsimile Finder website.
• Manuscript book description: "The book was one of the original three thousand volumes in the private collection of the Medici family that later constituted the core collection of the Biblioteca Laurenziana when it was opened to the public in 1571. At that time, it was rebound in the characteristic red leather with the Medici arms of the library. The binding retains the chain used to secure the book to a bench at that time. In 1808, the collection of the Dominican convent of San Marco merged with the Laurenziana to form the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana."--Facsimile Finder website.
• Script: Greek minuscule.
• Commentary volume title/editors: I vangeli illustrati : Firenze, Biblioteca medicea laurenziana, Plut.6.23 : commentario / a cura di Gianfranco Ravasi e Tania Velmans.
• Facsimile and commentary volumes issued in a case (34 x 27 x 15 cm).
• Princeton copy 1 Copy number 210 out of 399.

Language note

Ms. in Greek and Armenian; commentary in Italian.

Contents

• [v.1.] [Facsimile]
• [v.2.] Commentario.
• Commentary volume: Presentazione / di Massimo Bray
• Dal Gesù nazareno della storia al Gesù Christo dei vangeli / di Gianfranco Ravasi
• Il Tetravangelo della Laurenziana, Firenze, Laur. Plut. 6.23 / di Tania Velmans
• Indice delle tavole.

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Title on case front cover

• Vangelli illustrati : manoscritti Pluteo 6.23

Commentary volume title-page title

• Vangeli illustrati : Firenze, Biblioteca medicea laurenziana, Plut.6.23

Commentary volume cover title

• Manoscritto Laurenziano Plut.6.23 : i vangeli illustrati : commentario

Script title on manuscript front fly leaf recto

• Plut. 6, cod. 23

Facsimile Finder title

• Laurentian Gospels : facsimile edition

Facsimile Finder variant title

• Laurentian Tetraevangelion

ISBN

• 9788812008582 ((Facsimile))
• 8812008585 ((Facsimile))
• 9788812008582 ((Commentary))
• 8812008585 ((Commentary))

OCLC

1395153577

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