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Menologion of Basil II


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    • (edtf) [0976..1025]
    • (edtf) [1001..1016]El "Menologio de Basilio II", 2008, p. 123
    • (edtf) 1000~Oxford handbook of Byzantine studies, 2008
  • Work Locale

    • (naf) Constantinople
  • Form

    • (lcsh) Manuscripts, Byzantine
  • Form

    • Illuminated manuscript
  • Variants

    • Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1613
    • Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Vaticanus Graecus 1613
    • Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Graec. 1613
    • Menologium of Basil II
    • Menologium Graecorum Basilii Porphyrogeniti Imperatoris
    • Menologium Graecorum ipssu Basilii Imperatoris Graece
    • Menologio de Basilio II
    • Menologio de Basilio II Emperador de Bizancio
    • Menologio di Basilio II
    • Vatican Menologium
    • Ménologe du Vatican
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  • Sources

    • found: El "Menologio de Basilio II", 2008:t.p. (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Vat. Gr. 1613) p. xxxi (manuscript, the so-called "Menologio de Basilio II"; actually a synaxarion; conserved at the Biblioteca apostolica vaticana since the beginning of the 17th century; Byzantine miniatures) p. 47 (illuminated Greek codex, written in Perlschrift datable to around the year 1000) p. 123 (dated by Ševčenko between 1001 and 1016, based on evidence about Pantaleón in Vita de S. Atanasio Atonita)
    • found: El "Menologio" de Basilio II Emperador de Bizancio, 2005:publishers' statement, page 3 of cover (El "Menologio" de Basilio II Emperador de Bizancio; Vat. gr. 1613)
    • found: OCLC, 17 November 2015(access points: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1613, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. (Graec. 1613), Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Mss. (Graec. 1613), Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Greek 1613, Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1613; usages: Menologion of Basil II; Menologium of Basil II (Vatican Library, Manuscript, Gr. 1613), 975-1025 A.D.; Menologium Graecorum Basilii Porphyrogeniti imperatoris; il Menologio di Basilio II. (Cod. Vaticano greco 1613), Menologium graecorum jpssu Basilii imperatoris graece)
    • found: Grove art online, 17 November 2015:Grove art online (Menologion of Basil II; Byzantine illuminated calendar manuscript (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Vat. gr. 1613) of 439 pages; covers the first half of the administrative year (1 Sept-28 Feb) and contains up to eight commemorations for each day; presumed to be the surviving first volume of a two-volume set and, according to the dedicatory poem, was made for Emperor Basil II (reg 976-1025); the illustrations were supplied first; eight different names are found beside the illuminations, e.g., Pantoleon; its artists reproduced a common style)
    • found: The Oxford handbook of Byzantine studies, 2008:p. 736 (the "Menologion" of Basil II in the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1613); a manuscript of the Synaxarion of Constantinople dated c. 1000 containing images and short vitae of 430 saints and feasts)
    • found: Dumbarton Oaks papers, 1962:Ševčenko, Ihor. The illuminators of the Menologium of Basil II, p. 245 (Vaticanus Graecus 1613; commonly called the Menologium of Basil II; Byzantine manuscript; the only surviving Byzantine codex whose illuminations are accompanied by names that can be interpreted as signatures; executed under the auspices of Emperor Basil II and thus must be dated between 976 and 1025; in spite of its current name, it is a synaxarium consisting of illustrated notices, one per page, on saints, inventions of their relics, and great feasts, for each day of the first 6 months of the ecclesiastical year, from September 1 to the end of February; 430 miniatures; eight names: Pantoleon (79 times), Michael of Blachernae (61 times), George (45 times), Symeon (32 times), Michael the Younger (67 times), Menas (27 times), Nestor (71 times), and Symeon of Blachernae (48 times)) p. 247 (Ménologe du Vatican) p. 275 (the Vatican Menologium)
    • found: Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, 2002, viewed onine 18 November 2015:Synaxarion (the Menologion of Basil II; the most illustrious of manuscript synaxaries)
  • Editorial Notes

    • [Authorized access point for the physical manuscript, including its illumination, script, history, etc.; for the textual content of the manuscript, use: Orthodox Eastern Church. Synaxarion (Manuscript Menologion of Basil II) (no2015156574)]
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    • 2015-11-23: new
    • 2021-11-01: revised
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