Le miniature del Vangelo arabo della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze, codice Orientali 387 (Mardin, 1299 d.C.)Orientalia Christiana PeriodicaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/5KCV8TYN/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MassimoBernabòSaraFaniMargheritaFarinaIda G.RaoLe miniature del Vangelo arabo della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze, codice Orientali 387 (Mardin, 1299 d.C.)http://syriaca.org/cbss/5KCV8TYNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/5KCV8TYNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/5KCV8TYNOrientalia Christiana Periodica83:22017293-447The Laurentian Library in Florence owns an Arabic manuscript with the apocryphal Gospel of the Infancy of Our Lord (cod. Orientali 387), which is illustrated with over fifty drawings. It has the size of a notebook. The text of the manuscript was first published by M. E. Provera, for the Custodia Francescana di Terra Santa and more recently by S. Voicu. Only a few of the illustrations have been hitherto published. A colophon states that the manuscript was written in Mardin in 1299 C.E., that is during the so-called Syriac Renaissance. Differently from the contemporary Gospel lectionaries in Syriac, the illustrations are in Islamic style. The Gospel of the Infancy is part of a group of narratives of the early days of Jesus; scholars claim that all the writings of the group hark back to a lost fifth-century Syriac narrative. The miracles accomplished by Jesus’ bathwater and swaddling bands are the core of the narrative. The chapters of the Gospel tell miracles, healing diseases, casting out demons, and popular events of everyday life. Women’s matters dominate the Florentina Gospel: care of children, their diseases, possession, eroticism, beauty, jealousy. The Gospel is completed by a harmony of the events from the canonical Gospels, passages from the Gospel of Nicodemus, and a prologue with Zoroaster prophesying that a virgin will bear the Messiah in Bethlehem.
Bernabò, Massimo, Sara Fani, Margherita Farina, and Ida G. Rao. “Le Miniature Del Vangelo Arabo Della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Di Firenze, Codice Orientali 387 (Mardin, 1299 d.C.).” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 83:2 (2017): 293–447.
Massimo Bernabò et al., Le Miniature Del Vangelo Arabo Della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Di Firenze, Codice Orientali 387 (Mardin, 1299 d.C.),Orientalia Christiana Periodica 83:2 (2017): 293–447.Arab ChristiansInfancy Gospel of ThomasJacobitesJesusMardinNT apocryphaNativityVII-XVIII CEXIII CEarticonographyillustrations