Joshua Roll [SEP] collection
Joshua Roll
The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance, believed to have been created by artists of the Imperial workshops in Constantinople, and now in the Vatican Library.
Form and content.
The Roll is in the form of a continuous horizontal scroll or "rotulus", common in Chinese art, but all but unique in surviving examples of medieval Christian art. It is made of several joined pieces of sheep vellum, is 31 cm high
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