Salvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285)
Fanar Emma Maayan
The article explores iconography of the illuminated initial letters in tenth-eleventh-century Italo-Byzantine psalter (Vatican, Barber. gr. 285). It is argued that its clearly express Byzantine attitude to personal prayer, a plea for salvation and struggle with evil through words Psalms, despite mixture models, most which are certainly non-Byzantine character.
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