Manufacturing Illuminated Akathistos Manuscripts in Late Byzantine Constantinople: The History and Compositional Processes of Sinod. gr. 429
Manufacturing Illuminated Akathistos Manuscripts in Late Byzantine Constantinople: The History and Compositional Processes of Sinod. gr. 429
Author(s): Guoda GediminskaitėSubject(s): History, Literary Texts, Poetry, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Herlo Verlag UG
Keywords: Byzantine manuscripts; GIM 429; Hodegon Monastery; Philotheos Kokkinos; Moscow Akathistos; miniatures; Ioasaf ton Hodegon;
Summary/Abstract: The full story of the Moscow Akathistos still awaits to be told and there is much work to carry out on the available evidence. In this paper, it is not only the history of the manuscript that interests me. My study is also aimed at the compositional processes and dynamics between the scribe, painter, and patron of the codex, as I believe that this manuscript can significantly contribute to broadening our knowledge about book manufacturing and art production in Constantinople during the late Palaiologan period. In what follows, I shall first provide a complete and detailed description of the Moscow Akathistos. Then, I shall turn to the history and manufacturing of the codex.
Journal: Études byzantines et post-byzantines
- Issue Year: 5/2024
- Issue No: SEBPB 5.1
- Page Range: 41-92
- Page Count: 52
- Language: English
