The Octateuchs: A Study in Byzantine Manuscript Illustration

by John Lowden

Scholars have until now lacked a detailed study of the Octateuchs, a group of five illustrated Byzantine manuscripts that accompany the text of the first eight books of the Bible. Since the first historical studies of Early Christian and Byzantine art in the late nineteenth century, the Octateuchs have been considered important to hypotheses about the development of biblical illustration as well as to more detailed iconographic studies. John Lowden's...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271007710
• ISBN13: 9780271007717
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.