Research Guides @ Fordham: Medieval Book Facsimile and Manuscript Studies Guide: Byzantine Greek Introductory Bibliography

Introductory Bibliography for Byzantine Greek Manuscripts

Anderson, Jeffery C. “Manuscripts,” The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. eds. Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997) pp. 82-87

-------The New York Cruciform Lectionary (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press for the College Art Association, 1992)

Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai, ed. Sharon E.J. Gerstel (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010)

Art and Text in Byzantine Culture, ed. Liz James (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Brubaker, Leslie. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (c. 680-850): The Sources: An Annotated Survey (Burlington: Ashgate, 2001)

-------Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012)

-------The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)

-------Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, Cambridge Studies in Paleography and Codicology, 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Cormack, Robin. Byzantine Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Hatch, William Henry Paine. Greek and Syrian Miniatures in Jerusalem, with an Intriduction and a Description of Each of the Seventy-One Miniatures Reproduced (Cambridge: The Medieval Academy of America, 1931)

James, Liz. Light and Colour in Byzantine Art, Clarendon Studies in the History of Art (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)

Katsarelias, Dimitrios G. “Menologion of Basil II,” The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. eds. Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997) pp. 100-101

Lowden, John. The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary: The Story of a Byzantine Book (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009)

-------The Octateuchs: A Study in Byzantine Manuscript Illustration (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992)

Nelson, Robert S. Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006)

-------The Iconography of Preface and Miniature in the Byzantine Gospel Book (New York: New York University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1980)

Patriarchikon Hidryma Paterikōn Meletōn, The Treasures of Mount Athos: Illuminated Manuscripts, Miniatures-Headpieces-Initial Letters (Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1974)

Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson. “’Imperial’ Menologion,” The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. eds. Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997) pp. 101-102

Ševčenko, Ihor. “The Illuminators of the Menologium of Basil II,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 16 (1962) pp. 248-276

The Sacred Image East and West, Illinois Byzantine Studies; 4, ed. Ousterhout, Robert G. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)

Walter, Christopher. The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition (Burlington: Ashgate, 2003)

Weitzmann, Kurt. The Byzantine Octateuchs (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)

-------The Place of Book Illumination in Byzantine Art (Princeton: Princeton University press, 1975)