SMC 46

Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the mediterranean. THeir significance as vehicles for the transmission of visual and textual knowledge is well known. Less understood, particularly when it comes to non-Latin manuscripts, is the complex web of spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional interactions that influenced their production and reception. The twelve essays presented here seek to address this gap by exploring the very direct relationships that existed between manuscripts and those individuals or communities that were involved in their making. The volume is broad in scope, covering written artefacts produced between Late Antiquity and the fifteenth century and presenting case studies that range from the British Isles to East Africa and from Spain and the Maghreb to Armenia. The visual and textual evidence preserved in these manuscripts is interpreted by drawing from disciplines such as paleography, art history, codicology, and textual criticism. The result is a book that details the impact of makers, patrons, collectors, and readers on the making and circulation of manuscripts across Afro-Eurasia.

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FrontmatterI

ContentsV

Preface1
Jacopo Gnisci

Translations and the Exchange of Manuscripts among Eastern Christian Communities: Textual and Material Evidence from Anti-Chalcedonian Syriac Communities in Late Antiquity11
Philip Michael Forness

Mystic Contemplation of the Eusebian Canon Tables from Lindisfarne to Armenia55
Matthew R. Crawford

Manuscript Illuminations and Mural Paintings: Medium Interactions in Christian Egypt75
Mat Immerzeel

Patrons, Donors and Workshops: The Making of a Syriac Lectionary107
François Pacha Miran

Images of Christ Emmanuel and Christus Victor in British Library Add. 19548155
Gohar Grigoryan

The Vatican al-Ṣūfī and the Library of Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Ghāfiqī al-Shārrī in Thirteenth-century Ceuta213
Umberto Bongianino

Imaging Sanctity in Early Solomonic Ethiopia: The Portrait of ‘Qǝddus’ ʾIyasus Moʾa251
Jacopo Gnisci

Hebrew Book Art in Shared Spaces: Perpignan, c. 1300281
Katrin Kogman-Appel

The Ethiopian Royal Family as Commissioners of Manuscripts and the Artistic Style of the ‘Sad Eyes’323
Sophia Dege-Müller

Amir P‘ōlin between Tabriz and the Erznka Christian Brotherhood: Reassessing the Importance of Manuscript V103 (1336 CE) and its Commissioner-Copyist357
Theo Maarten van Lint

The Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church in Jerusalem during the Early Solomonic Period: Evidence from Ethiopic Manuscripts391
Vitagrazia Pisani

‘Spiritual Treasure in Five Languages’: Pentaglot Biblical Manuscripts from Egypt in a Global and Transregional Perspective425
Alin Suciu

Contributors467

Index of Written Artefacts469