Gospel of St Matthew, from John Lowden’s The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary: The Story of a Byzantine Book (published byYale University Press), thc first major study of this important Greek 12th century manuscript, which was bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Mary and Michael Jaharis in 2007. The picture shows the first folio of the Gospel and depicts the evangelist inspired by God

January/February 2010

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