1979 The Miniatures of the Sacra Parallela: Parisinus Graecus 923

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

This copy is a first edition.

Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth.

A facsimile edition of the manuscripts illustrations with 162 black and white plates and a two page color plate. Collated, complete.

The volume is a monumental scholarly work focusing on one of the most important and lavishly illustrated Byzantine manuscripts, containing scholarly analysis of the iconography, style and theological implications.

The Sacra Parallela is a Byzantine florilegium or anthology, composed primarily of moral and theological excerpts from the Bible and Church Fathers. It's attributed to john of Damascus, though this authorship is debated.

Kurt Weitzmann (1904-1993) was a German turned American art historian who was a leading figure in the study of Late Antique and Byzantine art in particular. He attended the universities of Münster, Würzburg and Vienna before moving to Princeton in 1935, due to Nazi persecution.