Paris Psalter
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The Paris Psalter is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript, 38 x 26.5 cm in size, containing 449 folios and 14 full-page miniatures. The Paris Psalter is considered a key monument of the so-called Macedo
David Composing the Psalms, with Melodia behind him, Bibliothèque Nationale folio 1v, c. 900 C.E., 36 × 26 cm
Reproach of Nathan, c. 950, fol. 136v.
Healing of Hezekiah, fol. 466v.
Moses Parting the Red Sea, fol.419v.
Constantine VII
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbon
Paris Psalter
…considered a key monument of the so-called Macedonian Renaissance, a 10th-century renewal of interest in classical art closely identified with the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (909–959) and his immediate successors. In the classification of Greek biblical manuscripts, it is designated by siglum 1133 (Rahlfs…
Constantine VII crowned by Christ, detail of an ivory plaque, Pushkin Museum, AD 945
Baptism of Constantine VII by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos.
Constantine VII dining with Simeon of Bulgaria.
The Bulgarians crush the Byzantine army led by Leo Phokas at Anchialus.