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THE MINIATURES OF THE SACRA PARALLELA.
Weitzmann, Kurt

- Princeton : Princeton University Press (1979) - 4to - cloth, dust jacket - 272 pages, with plates - ISBN 0691039402 / Order Nr. 109443 - Price: $ 75.00

No. 8 in Princeton's "Studies in Manuscript Illumination Series." A study of one of the more extensive Byzantine manuscripts which includes scenes from most of the Bible, the Parisinus Graecus 923, at the Bibliothèque National, Paris. Preface, table of contents, list of abbreviations and introduction. Description organized by sections of the Bible, including the Octateuch, Kings and Chronicles, wisdom literature, the prophets, gospels and epistles. Conclusion discusses the manuscript's significance. Bibliography and index. 162 pages of black and white plates. Dust jacket lightly tanned.

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