title: New light on the sources of the illuminations of the Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes
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metadata.value: Berti, Vittorio
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Cantone, Valentina
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:29:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:29:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.value: Berti V., Cantone V. New light on the sources of the illuminations of the Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 244–254.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6771
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metadata.value: The illuminations of the Christian Topography were depicted in the 6th century by the author of this
  cosmological treatise, known under the pseudonym Kosmas Indikopleustes. If his identity still remains
  uncertain along with other facts of his life, we know from his own words that his doctrine derives from
  the commentary on the Exodus by the bishop of Persia Mar Aba I (540–552). He used this knowledge
  of a large repertory of cosmological and biblical illuminations actually conserved only in the three
  extant manuscripts of the Christian Topography: the more ancient one in the Vatican Library, others
  in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai and in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence.
  Though the presence of the twelve springs of Moses in these illuminations, conserved in the
  latter two manuscripts, has already been interpreted as a consequence of Jewish tradition, this contribution,
  written in collaboration between an art historian and an expert in Syriac sources, offers a new
  interpretation of the illumination of the third stage of the Israelites’ journey in the desert. It is based
  on a fragment of the teaching of Mar Aba, conserved in the Commentary of the Exodus of Isho‘dad of
  Merv, a Christian bishop lived in the 9th century, never compared before with the illuminations of the
  Christian Topography. This source clarifies the genesis of the iconography, shading new light on these
  illuminations, which represent the witnesses of an oral source involving many exegetical traditions.
  Refs 46.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christian Topography by Kosmas Indikopleustes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Byzantine studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Syriac studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Jewish studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Byzantine art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Byzantine illumination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: New light on the sources of the illuminations of the Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes
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metadata.value: Article
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