Salvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285)

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Maayan, F. E. (2014). Salvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285), (38), 31-44. doi:10.2298/ZOG1438031M
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Title

Salvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285)

Subtitle
Author

Fanar, Emma, Maayan

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

38

Start page

31

End page

44

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG1438031M

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13611438031M

Date

2014-2020/03/12/11:46:59

Abstract

The article explores iconography of the illuminated initial letters in the tenth-eleventh-century Italo-Byzantine psalter (Vatican, Barber. gr. 285). It is argued that its initial letters clearly express Byzantine attitude to personal prayer, a plea for salvation and the struggle with evil through the words of Psalms, despite the mixture of models, most of which are certainly of non-Byzantine character.

Keywords

Byzantine psalter, illuminated initial letters, psalms, salvation