The Christian topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes : Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 9.28 : the map of the universe redrawn in the sixth century : with a contribution on the Slavic recensions
Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2013. Softcover. Soft cover, illustrated. (xi), 118 pages, 59 pages of plates, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color). VG/VG-, bumping and wear on covers, some foxing. Item #179757
ISBN: 9788863724028
"The Christian Topography was composed near the middle of the sixth century of our era. Its author set out to replace the classical conception of the universe with a radically different one that could accommodate the handful of biblical references to the terrestrial and heavenly worlds as well as everyday experience. The Florence manuscript, attributed to the middle of the eleventh century, is one of only three surviving witnesses to the entire Greek text with illustrations. This first complete publication of the manuscript sets out the history of the book, its physical structure, the work of its scribe and that of subsequent annotators. The illuminator and his contribution are examined, as are the materials used in painting the miniatures. The diagrams and illustrations, all reproduced in color, are described and their inscriptions transcribed. Final essays are devoted to the intellectual milieu in which the text was created and a framework for the study of the illustrated Slavic versions."-- Contents as follows: Prologo : II Nachleben della Topografia cristiana / Massimo Bernabò -- Introduction / Jeffrey C. Anderson -- Codicological and palaeographic description / Margherita Losacco -- The illustration of the Florence Christian topography ; Description of the miniatures and commentary / Jeffrey C. Anderson -- Results of the spectrophotometric analysis of BML, Plut. 9.28 / Marcello Piccolo, Bruno Radicati -- The science of the flat earth : the cosmography of Kosmas / Maja Kominko -- La Topografia cristiana in traduzaione slava : un contributo alla ricostruzione dello stemma codicum / Francesca Romoli.
OCLC: 859668927
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