Canones : : the art of harmony : the Canon Tables of the Four Gospels / / edited by Alessandro Bausi, Bruno Reudenbach, Hanna Wimmer.

• Superior document: Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; 18
• Author: Wimmer, Hanna
• MitwirkendeR: Alessandro, Bausi,; Beatrice, Kitzinger,; Bruno, Reudenbach,; Elizabeth, Mullins,; Ewa, Balicka-Witakowska,; Hanna, Wimmer,; Jacopo, Gnisci,; Jaś, Elsner,; Jeremiah, Coogan,; Lynley Anne, Herbert,; Matthew R., Crawford,; Stefan, Trinks,; Susanne, Wittekind,
• HerausgeberIn: Bausi, Alessandro,; Reudenbach, Bruno,; Wimmer, Hanna,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in manuscript cultures ; 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s).

The so-called ‘Canon Tables’ of the Christian Gospels are an absolutely remarkable feature of the early, late antique, and medieval Christian manuscript cultures of East and West, the invention of which is commonly attributed to Eusebius and dated to first decades of the fourth century AD. Intended...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Canones: The Art of Harmony
• Carl Nordenfalk
• Do the Eusebian Canon Tables Represent the Closure or the Opening of the Biblical Text? Considering the Case of Codex Fuldensis
• Transmission and Transformation of the Eusebian Gospel Apparatus in Greek Medieval Manuscripts
• The Eusebian Apparatus in Irish Pocket Gospel Books: Absence, Presence and Addition
• An Ethiopian Miniature of the Tempietto in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Its Relatives and Symbolism
• Beyond Eusebius: Prefatory Images and the Early Book
• Eusebian Reading and Early Medieval Gospel Illumination
• A Tale of Two Tables: Echoes of the Past in the Canons of the Sainte-Croix Gospels
• Saxum vivum and lapides viventes: Animated Stone in Medieval Book Illumination
• Shifting Frames: The Mutable Iconography of Canon Tables
• List of Contributors
• Index of Manuscripts