The text was corrected by Michael, a notary in Ciscissa, in 1049. The British Library possesses two manuscripts from Smyrna dated to the 11th and 15th centuries ( Harley 55), while Cappadocia is represented by Additional 39602, written in Ciscissa for the bishop Stephanos in 980. It must have been an important centre for book production, even if no sources allow us to support this hypothesis. Nicaea, one of the major cities of Bithynia, and provisional capital of the Empire during the Sack of Constantinople in 1204, was a major intellectual and artistic centre due to the presence of the elite of the fallen capital who were exiled there. From Bithynia, we have some 15 manuscripts dating from the 8th to the 14th century. Other examples are a 13th-century psalter ( Additional 11835) which belonged to Gregory of Cyprus, priest-monk at the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai, or a 12th-century menologion ( Additional 26114) acquired at the same monastery.įinally, studies have shown that 36 manuscripts dating from the 9th to the 14th century can be assigned to the vast province of Asia Minor. This is the case for many manuscripts that Robert Curzon bought on his trips to the monasteries of Jerusalem, particularly the monastery of St. In addition, the presence on the island of metochia of the Orthodox monasteries of Jerusalem, and the close relationships maintained by Cyprus with other regions, contributed to the wide dissemination of Cypriot written culture through the exchange of scribes and books. Given the remarkable geographical range of ‘epsilon style’ manuscripts, it must be assumed that production was divided among various centres where itinerant scribes and illuminators temporarily came together to complete a specific project, and somehow imposed their scribal and iconographic standards.
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