Liturgical Scrolls of Southern Italy as a Special Type of Illuminated Manuscripts
Svetlana Kovalevskaia
The article is devoted to illustration principles of Southern Italian liturgical scrolls, a specific type manuscripts manufactured only in this region within the period from 10th 14th century. Only thirty one scrolls have been preserved. overview made based on iconographic and stylistic analysis material, which includes following key points: connection between illustrative programme peculiarities practice, correspondence texts illustrations, changes caused by prohibition old emergence new edition Easter hymn text. author classifies illustrations their plots, points out principal features stylistically diverse material. Briefly described are distinctions that enable us arrange certain groups, each tends stick or another art centre. states due region’s unique historical geographical position, scroll stands as synthesis different artistic traditions, primarily Carolingian, Ottonian Byzantine.
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