Bookcover: Anastasis; Crucifixion

Work Number: 579291
Title: Bookcover: Anastasis; Crucifixion
Alternative Title: Cod. gr. 207
Approximate date: 11th-12th c
Description: Evangelion
Front cover: Anastasis with flowers on the vine ornamenting the scene
Back cover: Crucifixion with flower on the vine ornamenting the scene
Front panel: Evangelists in roundels
Spine: Vine tendril with leaves
Medium: Metalwork; Silver, Gilding
Language: Greek
Subject: Anastasis; Angels; Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint; Evangelists; Jesus Christ, Crucifixion; Moses (Biblical leader); Virgin Blachernitissa
Bibliographic Citation: Weitzmann, Kurt. ""Mount Sinai's Holy Treasures,"" National Geographic, 125, 1964, p. 122, ill. | Johann George, Herzog zu Sachsen / Prince of Sazony), Das Katharinenkloster am Sinai, Leipzig-Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1912, figs, 36-37.

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