Illuminating the liturgical word: Text and image in a decorated lectionary (Mount Athos, Dionysiou Monastery, cod. 587)

Word and Image

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-60

  Dolezal, Mary Lyon ^a  

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EID: 61249486880     PISSN: 02666286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02666286.1996.10435931     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. idem, 'A 10th century lectionary. A lost masterpiece of the Macedonian Renaissance', Revue des études sud-est européennes, 7 (1971), pp. 617-40
2. For more detailed descriptions of the lectionary text, see Ernest C. Colwell and Donald W. Riddle, eds, Prolegomena to the Study of the Lectionary Text of the Gospels, vol. 1, Studies in the Lectionary Text of the Greek New Testament (Chicago, 1933)
3. and Bruce M. Metzger, 'Greek lectionaries and a critical edition of the Greek New Testament', in Die alten Übersetzungen des neuen Testaments, die Kirchenvaterzitate und Lektionare, ed. Kurt Aland (Berlin, 1972), pp. 484-91
4. Dolezal, 'The middle Byzantine lectionary', pp. 60-64
5. Kurt Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des 9. und 10. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1935), pls 440-47
6. Athanasios D. Kominis, ed., Patmos: Treasures of the Monastery (Athens, 1988), p. 306, fig. 9. Excised areas in the Patmos manuscript suggest there were once additional images in this manuscript
7. Vera D. Likhachova, Byzantine Miniature (Moscow, 1977), pl. 10, and for other examples, pls 6, 8, 9
8. Weitzmann, 'Narrative and liturgical Gospel illustrations', p. 252
9. Weitzmann, 'The Constantinopolitan Lectionary, Morgan 639', fig. 306
10. The lection stops abruptly in the middle of John 11:45
11. For discussion of this decree, see Jean Gouillard, 'Le Decret du Synode de 843', in Actes du XIIe congrès international d'études byzantines, Ohrid, 10-16 September 1961, 3 vols (Belgrade, 1964), 11, pp. 439-49
12. Weitzmann, 'An imperial lectionary', pp. 242-48
13. Walter, 'The date and content of the Dionysiou lectionary', pp. 188-89
14. Mateos, Typicon de la Grande Église, 11, pp. 92-147. The liturgical scholar, John Baldovin, has discussed the stational liturgy for movable feasts and clarified the form of ritual for these days. Very few movable feast days were celebrated with urban processions in the middle Byzantine period
15. John Francis Baldovin, The Urban Character of Christian Worship. The Origins, Development, and Meaning of Stational Liturgy, Orientalia Christiana Analecta, vol. 228 (Rome, 1987), pp. 191-97
16. See also idem, 'La Liturgie stationnale à Constantinople', La Maison-Dieu, 147 (1981), pp. 85-94