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    Lightbulb Illustrations of Byzantine soldiers from the Psalter of Theodore of Caesarea, 11thC

    There are some good Byzantine manuscripts of the 11th century, following periods of iconoclasm, and before the 4th Crusade took Constantinople.
    Illustrations of soldiers from the Psalter of Theodore of Caesarea, Byzantine, 11th century, BL Add MS 19352
    including a rare image of metallic chausses:
    7r Sleeping Guards at the Sepulchre
    10v Archers shooting at the just man
    12r Warriors and David in pit
    32v Sleeping Guards at the Sepulchre
    36v Seven sleepers of Ephesus
    45v The betrayal
    63v Siege where Uriah died
    65v King Saul and David
    67r David praying / King Saul and soldiers
    69v David and two foreigners


    73r Byzantine soldiers in scale armour & chausses (with oval shield?)
    74v (upper) David enthroned & guards
    74v (lower) Soldiers of Sobal burning / arrival of Joab
    75r Constantine mounted with cross attacked by archers
    77v King David with guards
    85v St. Procopius mounted
    87v Christ on Cross pierced with the lance
    92r (lower) Adoration of the Magi
    95v (lower) St. Anthimus and the twenty thousand martyrs of Nicomedia
    98r (upper) Two mounted soldiers
    105v (upper) Byzantine cavalry & defeated enemy
    123r (right) Massacre of the Innocents
    144r (lower) Phineas executing judgement
    145r Hebrews defeated by their enemies
    178v (lower) Warrior with mace and shield
    181r Death of Absalom
    182r David and Goliath
    190v David meets Saul enthroned
    191r (lower) David defeats Goliath
    199r Habakkuk the Prophet / angel slaying the ungodly

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    Illustrations of soldiers from the Psalter of Theodore of Caesarea, Byzantine, 11th century, BL Add MS 19352

    Druzhina
    Byzantine Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    Last edited by druzhina; 06-11-2018 at 02:03.

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