medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On a somewhat lighter note, if one wishes to one can discover in that image
http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/41566368
striking examples of other technologies associated with books and reading. The areas of rectangles seen over the shoulders of these two evangelists could be read as depictions of card file drawers (are these saints in a library outfitted with cases for a card catalog?). And is that object between John and Mark the upper part of a press?
Best again,
John Dillon
(ducking for cover)
On 04/26/12, Bob Kraft wrote:
> I'm fascinated by this image of John and Mark with their respective Gospels in hand. The formats of the books seem to represent scrolls written horizontally in "classical" fashion (rather than as rotuli, read vertically, as often depicted in Christian iconography after about the 6th century), unless normal codices were intended by were muddled in the restoration.
>
> On 4/25/2012 2:55 AM, John Dillon wrote:
> >Mark (at right; at left, St. John, apostle and evangelist) as depicted in the restored eleventh-century frescoes of the Karanlık kilise (Dark Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province:
> >http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/41566368
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