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Record Nr.

UNISA996379040903316

Titolo

Canones : the art of harmony : the Canon Tables of the Four Gospels / / edited by Alessandro Bausi, Bruno Reudenbach, Hanna Wimmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-062584-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s)

Collana

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; ; 18

Disciplina

800

Soggetti

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Early Christian

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Canones: The Art of Harmony -- Carl Nordenfalk -- Do the Eusebian Canon Tables Represent the Closure or the Opening of the Biblical Text? Considering the Case of Codex Fuldensis -- Transmission and Transformation of the Eusebian Gospel Apparatus in Greek Medieval Manuscripts -- The Eusebian Apparatus in Irish Pocket Gospel Books: Absence, Presence and Addition -- An Ethiopian Miniature of the Tempietto in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Its Relatives and Symbolism -- Beyond Eusebius: Prefatory Images and the Early Book -- Eusebian Reading and Early Medieval Gospel Illumination -- A Tale of Two Tables: Echoes of the Past in the Canons of the Sainte-Croix Gospels -- Saxum vivum and lapides viventes: Animated Stone in Medieval Book Illumination -- Shifting Frames: The Mutable Iconography of Canon Tables -- List of Contributors -- Index of Manuscripts

Sommario/riassunto

The so-called ‘Canon Tables’ of the Christian Gospels are an absolutely remarkable feature of the early, late antique, and medieval Christian manuscript cultures of East and West, the invention of which is commonly attributed to Eusebius and dated to first decades of the fourth century AD. Intended to host a technical device for structuring, organizing, and navigating the Four Gospels united in a single codex – and, in doing so, building upon and bringing to completion previous



endeavours – the Canon Tables were apparently from the beginning a highly complex combination of text, numbers and images, that became an integral and fixed part of all the manuscripts containing the Four Gospels as Sacred Scripture of the Christians and can be seen as exemplary for the formation, development and spreading of a specific Christian manuscript culture across East and West AD 300 and 800. In the footsteps of Carl Nordenfalk’s masterly publication of 1938 and few following contributions, this book offers an updated overview on the topic of ‘Canon Tables’ in a comparative perspective and with a precise look at their context of origin, their visual appearance, their meaning, function and their usage in different times, domains, and cultures.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910500607703321

Autore

Kellens Jean

Titolo

Introduction à l’Avesta : Le récitatif liturgique sacré des zoroastriens / / Jean Kellens, Céline Redard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Les Belles Lettres, 2021

ISBN

2-251-91585-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Docet omnia

Altri autori (Persone)

RedardCéline

Soggetti

Religion

philologie

religion

Avesta

zoroastrisme

histoire des religions

Iran ancien

Parsis

Yasna

mazdéisme

langues indo-européennes

liturgie

avestique

Inde ancienne

livre sacré

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Les religions du monde contemporain se réfèrent presque toutes à un livre que leurs fidèles considèrent comme sacré. L’Avesta, qui servit dans les communautés zoroastriennes d’Iran, d’Inde et dans leur diaspora, semble appartenir à cet ensemble, en témoignant des origines de la religion préislamique des tribus iraniennes.  Quelque chose toutefois exige une attention plus insistante. Presque toujours abordé comme l’expression théorique d’une doctrine religieuse ou le miroir d’une histoire et d’une géographie révolues, l’Avesta est aussi une machine littéraire dont il faut démonter les rouages. C’est-à-dire analyser avec précision le mode de transmission, les particularités de structure et les intentions liturgiques qui ont présidé aux assemblages textuels.  Telle est l’ambition de ce livre retraçant l’évolution des recherches depuis les origines jusqu’aux avancées du XXIe siècle, qui ont révolutionné les thèses couramment admises jusqu’alors.