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Old Testament fragment (Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, I B 18)

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28: 77:. His daughters wear tunics with jewels and diadems. The iconography of Job is very different in this manuscript from that in later centuries. Here he is seen as a royal figure while in later portrayals he is seen as humbled and sitting on a dung heap. This miniature, although not executed by a skilled hand, provides an important example of Coptic art in the period of transition from the 136: 141: 97: 131: 126: 17: 27: 78: 66: 93: 39: 70: 59: 51: 85: 120: 43: 31:
Job and his daughters from folio 4v of Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, MS I B 18.
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The manuscript was part of a collection of Coptic manuscripts made by Cardinal
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Old Testament fragment (Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, 1 B 18)
54:. The manuscript has only 8 surviving folios and includes the text from 47: 74: 96:
to the Biblioteca Borbonica in Naples, which later became the
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and his daughters. Job is pictured as a bearded man wearing a
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On folio 4 verso there is a large pen drawing illustrating
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Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, MS I B 18
92:. In 1821 the manuscript was sold by Countess 8: 81:tradition to a more linear, abstract style. 98:Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III 26: 111:Treasures from Italy's Great Libraries 7: 113:. New York, The Vendome Press, 1997. 137:5th-century illuminated manuscripts 25: 142:Byzantine illuminated manuscripts 132:5th-century biblical manuscripts 127:Illuminated biblical manuscripts 50:in the Sahidic dialect of the 1: 38:is a fragment of 5th century 158: 32: 30: 109:Crinelli, Lorenzo. 33: 16:(Redirected from 149: 21: 157: 156: 152: 151: 150: 148: 147: 146: 117: 116: 106: 94:Adelaide Borgia 52:Coptic language 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 155: 153: 145: 144: 139: 134: 129: 119: 118: 115: 114: 105: 102: 86:Stefano Borgia 24: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 154: 143: 140: 138: 135: 133: 130: 128: 125: 124: 122: 112: 108: 107: 103: 101: 99: 95: 91: 87: 82: 80: 76: 72: 68: 63: 61: 57: 53: 49: 45: 44:Old Testament 41: 37: 29: 19: 110: 83: 64: 35: 34: 79:Hellenistic 46:written in 121:Categories 104:References 73:and short 40:manuscript 90:Velletri 60:Proverbs 58:40:8 to 48:uncials 42:of the 62:3:19. 75:tunic 71:crown 67:Job 56:Job 123:: 100:. 20:)

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Old Testament fragment (Naples, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele III, 1 B 18)

manuscript
Old Testament
uncials
Coptic language
Job
Proverbs
Job
crown
tunic
Hellenistic
Stefano Borgia
Velletri
Adelaide Borgia
Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III
Categories
Illuminated biblical manuscripts
5th-century biblical manuscripts
5th-century illuminated manuscripts
Byzantine illuminated manuscripts

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