Beautiful image! To my knowledge the 'final miniatures' of the Gospel (Matenadaran, MS. 2374, ff 228-229) are earlier Syriac or Armenian, incorporated into the 989 MS. Do you have a source on the Byz attribution?
Off the top of my head, not sure! Possibly misled thinking about cover, but am sure have seen the final illuminations argued as potentially products of Byz Egypt/Syria... Hmm!
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Suspect I was thinking of this https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1kSpN3Kfgc0C&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141#v=onepage&q&f=false … etc etc, but in any case have removed :)
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They hit it on the nose with "complex overlay of varying artistic traditions"! I do think the 'final miniatures' are Armenian in intent, for an Armenian audience. The style is ambiguous, but the inserted folios are integrated in a manner seen in other Armenian gospels.
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Interesting, thank you! :) Looking around this morning, old view does seem to adopt Syrian origin (e.g. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3045509 ) so v interesting to see moved on! :)
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