KOKKINOBAPHOS MANUSCRIPTS REVISITED : THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE OF THE BOOKS * THE
Kokkinobaphos manuscripts — Ms . Vatican BAV gr . 1162 , hereafter referred to as The [ aticanus ], and Ms . Paris BNF gr . 1208 , hereafter referred to as P [ arisinus ] — are well-V among Byzantinists for their text and above all for their decoration (1 ). These two known illuminated and almost identical Byzantine books of the second quarter of the 12 th richly were commissioned in a leading Constantinopolitan scriptorium (2 ). They each contain century sermons of the monk Iakovos of the Kokkinobaphou monastery that recount the early life six Mary from her Conception until the public demonstration of her innocence after the of (3 ). Both manuscripts have been supplemented by a continuous visual narrative Annunciation miniatures , interspersed within the homiletic text , and six additional typological frontispieces of representing biblical theophanies and introducing each sermon . The Kokkinobaphos picto-
Preliminary remarks
This article forms part of my recent thesis : «Reading two Byzantine Illustrated Books : The Kokkinobaphos (*) Manuscripts (Vaticanus graecus 1162 and Parisinus graecus 1208 ) and their Illustration », Ph . D . disserta-, University of Birmingham , 2004 (hereafter referred to as «Reading two Byzantine Illustrated Books »), tion exhaustively examines the word and image correspondence in both copies , the question of precedence which the two manuscripts and some aspects regarding the «Kokkinobaphos workshop » and the re-dating between the Paris copy . It also broaches the question of patronage and the purpose the Kokkinobaphos books served . of publication of my thesis as a monograph dedicated to both Kokkinobaphos manuscripts and their social The will appear in the near future . All transcriptions and translations provided in this paper are my own . context , I would like to acknowledge the benefit I have derived from the remarks of Professor Leslie Brubaker Finally thereby implicating her in the article '' s shortcomings . without 1 ) For the text see Jacobi Monachi ex Monasterio Coccinobaphi Orationes Encomiasticae in SS . Virginem (,
PG 127 : cols . 543-700 , incomplete and with numerous mistakes , but still the only available edition . Deiparam the illustration see C . Stornajolo , Miniature della Omilie di Giacomo Monaco (cod . Vatic . Gr . 1162 ) e For ''
Evangeliario Greco urbinate (cod . Vatic . Urbin . gr . 2 ), Rome , 1910 (Codices e Vaticanis Selecti , series minor dell ), hereafter referred to as Omilie ; H . Omont ,«Miniatures des home ´ lies sur la Vierge du moine Jacques (MS 1 1208 de Paris », Bulletin de la Socie ´ te ´ Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits a` Peintures , II , 1927 (here-grec referred to as Home ´ lies ) ; I . Hutter and P . Canart , Das Marienhomiliar des Mönchs Jakobos von Kokkinobaphoafter ,
Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1162 , Vatican City , 1991 (Codices e Vaticanis Selecti , 79 ) (hereafter referred as Marienhomiliar ). to 2 )
I . Hutter and P . Canart , Marienhomiliar , p . 17 ; J . C . Anderson , «The Illustrated Sermons of James (Monk : Their Dates , Order and Place in the History of Byzantine Art », Viator 22 , 1991 , pp . 69-120 , especially the pp . 83-85 (hereafter referred to as «The Illustrated Sermons »). See also K . Linardou , «Reading two Illustrated Books », pp . 238-247 , especially pp . 244 and 246-247 , where V is dated in the late 1140s Byzantine P is dated early in the 1150s . and 3 ) For Iakovos see E . M . Jeffreys , «The Sevastokratorissa Eirene as Literary Patroness : The Monk Iakovos (», XVI . Internationaler Byzantinistenkongress . Akten 2.3 (= Jahrbuch der O¨sterreichischen Byzantinistik 32 / 3 ), , 1983 , pp . 63-71 (hereafter referred to as «The Monk Iakovos ») ; E . M . Jeffreys , «The Song of Songs Vienna Twelfth-Century Byzantium », Prudentia 23 / 2 , 1991 , pp . 36-54 especially pp . 43-45 (hereafter referred to as and The Song of Songs ») ; I . Hutter and P . Canart , Marienhomiliar , pp . 12-14 ; J . C . Anderson , «The Illustrated «Sermons », pp . 70-76 . For the Kokkinobaphou monastery see C . Stornajolo , Omilie , p . 5 ; H . Omont , ´ lies , p . 5 ; R . Janin , Le ge ´ ographie eccle ´ siastique de l '' empire byzantin 1.2 : Les e ´ glises et les monaste`res des Home centres byzantins , Paris , 1975 , p . 163 ; I . Hutter and P . Canart , Marienhomiliar , p . 12 ; J . C . Ander-grands
son , «The Illustrated Sermons », pp . 85-86 .
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