The thirteenth-century manuscript Graecus Z 524 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice is a little-explored treasure chest of Byzantine culture. Most of the prose and poetic texts it transmits do not survive elsewhere. Additionally, its very composition reveals Byzantine insecurities and anxieties after the tragic events of the fourth crusade. This book presents a preliminary attempt to explore the wealth of this material. It comprises three distinct yet complementary parts that analyse different aspects of the ...
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The thirteenth-century manuscript Graecus Z 524 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice is a little-explored treasure chest of Byzantine culture. Most of the prose and poetic texts it transmits do not survive elsewhere. Additionally, its very composition reveals Byzantine insecurities and anxieties after the tragic events of the fourth crusade. This book presents a preliminary attempt to explore the wealth of this material. It comprises three distinct yet complementary parts that analyse different aspects of the manuscript and the poetic texts it contains. The first part details the manuscript's compilation with the help of codicology, palaeography, and cultural history. It concludes that, in the manuscript's current state, the page order is disturbed and that originally all poems -which are seemingly randomly dispersed in the medieval codex- formed a single, well-planned anthology made of eleven 'books' or chapters. The second and the third parts focus on the twelfth-century poetry related to objects of art (e.g. icons, frescoes, and mosaics) that is included in two 'books' from this anthology.
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