Lezionario bizantino Jaharis
Costantinopoli
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 303
In questo manoscritto i quattro Evangelisti, ritratti con squisita resa dei particolari e incorniciati da bordi elaborati che richiamano la tecnica dello smalto cloisonné, rappresentano il culmine dell’arte bizantina di fine XI - inizi XII secolo. Illustrato qui appare l’Evangelista Matteo con i capelli bianchi seduto davanti alle mura di una città, con il suo nome in greco scritto in alto. Il manoscritto, che si ritiene sia stato creato per essere utilizzato a Santa Sofia, la chiesa patriarcale dell’impero bizantino, testimonia l’interesse di Bisanzio nei confronti dell’arte dei libri. Iscrizioni nel colophon indicano che nei primi anni del XVIII secolo l’opera si trovava ancora a Costantinopoli proprietà di Chrysanthos Notaras, patriarca di Gerusalemme e uno dei primi eminenti esponenti del cosiddetto Illuminismo greco.
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Folios 2v-3r, opening page of the Gospel of Saint John








































































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Folio 252v, close of final synaxarion lection, with line added, at top of colomn, by an unknown user, date unknown; main text supplied and prayer added, at bottom, by a user named Nicholas, possibly 13th or 14th century
Folio 310r, list of morning resurrection lections added, in right column by an unknown user, possibly 15th century
Folios 310v-311r, last original leaf left blank; reused 11th century (?) leaf from a copy of Symeon Metaphrastes' Menologian
Folios 312v-313r, reused leaf from an 11th-century (?) copy of Symeon Metaphrastes' Menologion; 14th-century (?) copy of Homilies of John Chrysostom
Folio 3r, detail, ownership note and signature of Chrysanthos Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem, dated 1707
Folio 257v, detail, menologian, September 14, special instructions for the commemoration of the Elevation of the Holy Cross