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Book of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts

God speaks to Job. JobXXXVIII, Mount Athos; Megisti Lavra Monastery, Codex B. 100, 12th century.

There are fourteen known Byzantine manuscripts of the Book of Job dating from the 9th to 14th centuries, as well as a post-Byzantine codex illuminated with cycle of miniatures. The quantity of Job illustrations survived in the fifteen manuscripts exceeds 1800 pictures. The total is aggregated considerably by single images of Job in other manuscripts, frescoes and carvings.


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