Bookcover: Crucifixion; Resurrection and Saints

Work Number: 579272
Title: Bookcover: Crucifixion; Resurrection and Saints
Alternative Title: Cod. gr. 205
Approximate date: 11th c
Description: Evangelion

Cover, front: Personifications of the wind blow angels

Cover, back: Christ resurrected is accompanied by soldiers. Surrounding the central scene are individual icon-portraits of saints in assymetrical borders. Flowers and swirling vine tendrials adorn the scene.
Medium: Metalwork
Subject: Angels; James, the Greater, Saint; Jesus Christ, Crucifixion; Jesus Christ, Resurrection; Luke, Saint; Saints; Simon, the Apostle, Saint; Thomas, Apostle, Saint, active 1st century
Bibliographic Citation: Rothenberg, Beno. God's Wilderness; Discoveries in Sinai trans from the Hebrew by Joseph Witriol, London, Thames and Hudson, 1961, pl. 66. | Atiya, Aziz Suryal. The Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, Cairo, 1950, p. 50, ill.