The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia

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The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They supply glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, within the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia in addition to within the Christian East. As this work shows, their artwork is closely related to Syriac, Armenian, Greek, and Georgian gospel books and to the art of late antique (Coptic) Egypt, Nubia, and Himyar (Yemen). Like most gospel manuscripts, the Garima Gospels contain ornately decorated canon tables which function as concordances of the different versions of the similar material within the gospels. Analysis of these tables of numbered parallel passages, devised by Eusebius of Caesarea, contributes significantly to our working out of the early development of the canonical four gospel collection. The origins and meanings of the decorated frames, portraits of the evangelists, Alexandrian circular pavilion, and unique image of the Jerusalem Temple are elucidated. The Garima texts and decoration demonstrate how a distinctive Christian culture developed in Aksumite Ethiopia, even as also belonging to the mainstream late antique Mediterranean world. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this volume presents all the Garima illuminated pages for the primary time and extensive comparative material. It is going to be an very important resource for those studying late antique art and history, Ethiopia, eastern Christianity, New Testament textual criticism, and illuminated books.

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