A book of Psalms from eleventh-century Byzantium
Subtitle: the complex of texts and images in Vat. Gr. 752
By: edited by Barbara Crostini & Glenn Peers
Contributors: Crostini, Barbara, editor; Peers, Glenn, editor; Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Series: Studi e testi -- 504; Studi e testi (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana) -- 504.
Publisher: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Città del Vaticano
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9788821009525; 9788821009521
Subjects: Psalters; Congresses; Manuscripts; Byzantine Illumination of books and manuscripts; Illustrations; Civilization; Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Notes: Consists primarily of papers read at a workshop held in Rome on June 11-13, 2012; the workshop was organized by the Ars Edendi Project of Stockholm University.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

15 contributions in English and 4 in Italian.
Table of contents: title: Preface:; title: Sweden and the Vatican Library  -- Cesare Pasini; title: Il Vat. Gr. 752: fattura materiale, scrittura, mise en page (con qualche osservazione sul Salterio Hierosol. S. Sepulcri 53  -- Francesco D'Aiuto; title: Il "poema" di introduzione del Salterio Vat. Gr. 752  -- Augusta Acconcia Longo; title: Codex Vat. Gr. 752: some remarks about its pictorial programme and its historical context  -- Dirk Krausmüller; title: The so-called Schism of 1054 and its impact on Byzantine society  -- Christian Gastgeber; title: Cum Davidi versari: the Psalter as acquired self-expression  -- Erik Varden, OCSO; title: David and Christ sing the Psalms: the Psalter as prophecy and liturgy  -- Susan Gillingham; title: The catena of Vat. Gr. 752 (with an appendix on Giovanni Mercati's unpublished notes on the MS)  -- Reinhart Ceulemans; title: How many authors? Hesychius on the Psalms  -- Sever J. Voicu; title: Hesychius of Jerusalem's Prologue to the Psalms revisited in the light of Vat. Gr. 752 and its illustrative program  -- Barbara Crostini with Mariachiara Fincati; title: Note sulla tecnica redazionale dei commenti scoliastici di Esichio di Gerusalemme  -- Maria Antonietta Barbàra; title: Il Commentarius in Leviticum di Esichio di Gerusalemme  -- Stefano Tampellini; title: The Greek fragment of the Commentary on Leviticus by Hesychius of Jerusalem  -- Tomás Fernández; title: Process and meaning: penitence, prayer and pedagogy in Vat. Gr. 752  -- Glenn Peers; title: Make music with understanding: music, musicians and choristers in the miniatures of Vat. Gr. 752  -- Maja Kominko; title: The limits of visual polemicism in Vat. Gr. 752  -- Cecily J. Hilsdale; title: Urban topographies: representing space in Vat. Gr. 752  -- Mati Meyer -- Vat. Gr. 752 and Vat. Gr. 1927: related manuscripts? / -- Nicolette S. Trahoulia; title: Meditation, translation, the liturgy, and the medieval illustrated Psalter in the West -- Diane Reilly-- Afterword /-- Timothy Janz.