Manuscript miniatureLater depiction

Luke the Evangelist

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The manuscript's red binding; an isolated photographic detail, not the lost gilded cover. — Unspecified · CC0 · British Library via Wikimedia Commons

Elsewhere the tsar appears again, beside Luke the Evangelist.

Scene 4 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

Yet the family portrait still places the tsar among his relatives, and the miniature with Luke places him in a devotional image.

Scene 7 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

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Painting · Jaroslav Čermák · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Saint Nicholas
Mosaic · Unknown Byzantine mosaicist · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Saint Panteleimon
Icon · Angelos Akotantos; Yair-haklai (photograph) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Theodore Tiron
Manuscript miniature · Unknown medieval illuminator · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Theodore Stratelates
Manuscript miniature · Scriptorium of the Lorsch Abbey · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mark
Manuscript miniature · Unknown illuminator, Codex Aureus of Lorsch · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
John

Antiquity

The Gospels of Ivan Alexander Boris I and Christianisation

Sources

Panitza Library, American University in Bulgaria Special Collection: The Four Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander. AUBG LibGuides AUBG LibGuides
Simeon (scribe); anonymous medieval illuminators; British Library (custodian) Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, Add MS 39627 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
Scot McKendrick The Gospels of Czar Ivan Alexander Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), ed. Helen C. Evans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven/London: Yale University Press · 2004 · 56

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Sts Cyril and Methodius National Library, Bulgaria; British Library, UK The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander PDF UNESCO, International Memory of the World Register, revised nomination · 2016 · 8 pp.
UNESCO Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander Memory of the World, register entry · 2017
Lilyana Yordanova The Gospels Manuscript of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria Mapping Eastern Europe, eds Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan
Florin Curta Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500–1300) PDF Brill’s Companions to European History. Leiden/Boston: Brill · 2019 · 19 · 198–209
Boban Petrovski St. Clement of Ohrid, Khan/kniaz Boris-Mikhail and Kniaz/tsar Simeon: Historical Aspects Slověne = Словѣне. International Journal of Slavic Studies · 2016 · 5 · 10–53
Санкт-Петербургский институт истории РАН; Российская национальная библиотека (holding institution) Зографское евангелие; кон. X — нач. XI; РНБ, Глаг. 1 История письма европейской цивилизации, manuscript database
Unknown medieval icon painter; reproduction creator not supplied File:Saint Clement of Ohrid (icon, 13th-14th century).jpg Wikimedia Commons
Unknown manuscript maker; reproduction creator not supplied in Commons API File:Kodex.Zograf.JPG Wikimedia Commons; reported reproduction of J. Kurz, Učebnice jazyka staroslověnského (Praha, 1969); original textbook not independently consulted
Vatican News St. Luke, Evangelist, Physician, Patron of Artists Dicastery for Communication, Holy See

Images

Manuscript miniature

Unknown illuminator, Codex Aureus of Lorsch · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Manuscript miniature · c. 810 · later depiction · detail

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Unknown illuminator, Codex Aureus of Lorsch / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain. Manuscript miniature · c. 810 · later depiction · detail

Where you meet Luke the Evangelist

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