The Parable of the Good Samaritan.... From the 6thC Rossano Gospels (Codex Purpureus Rossanensis), f. 7v, via http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/42762 pic.twitter.com/4xeaVNQppF
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The Holy Family's flight into Egypt (Matthew 2:13-23)... Mid-12thC mosaic, Palatine Chapel, Palermo (Sicily): http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/zgothic/mosaics/4palatin/index.html …pic.twitter.com/HMnKmgTOKt
A detail from the Parable of the Good Samaritan, 6thC AD, Rossano Gospels f. 7v.pic.twitter.com/bTq1FrtdE7
Joseph, Mary & Jesus arrive in Egypt after fleeing from Herod; they stay there until he dies—Mosaic, c. 432 AD, Romehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/edk7/15737450578 …
Another view of the Holy Family's flight from Herod into Egypt; 6thC ivory, made in Syria? http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/LouvreAnnIv0-1.jpg …pic.twitter.com/eLSAcuQg77
Here's the end of Matthew 25, f.80v ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’pic.twitter.com/urlH6dNcxG
A bit off your normal path. Very powerful text, beautiful penmanship. Who did this? How cold was his dormitory?
One of my occasional subtweets ;) And absolutely, plus imagine stress of adding the 10thC Old English gloss to the beautiful Latin text…!
The Lindisfarne Gospels are so damn beautiful.
Can't disagree, both the original text and the later, 10thC Old English gloss!
What is written in the smaller text between the lines?
It's a later, 10thC Old English gloss to the Latin text :)
Thanks.
Beautiful, but that line won't go down well at The Sun, Mail, Express, Telegraph ...
About as political as you get on Twitter, isn't it Caitlin! Thank you for this. It's always inspiring.
That's scary. At the end of the 9thC this Gospel was discarded from the songbook of Lindisfarne ... right?
Carolingian minuscule is so pretty…
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