Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Hamilton lectionary
Constantinople, end of 11th century
MS M.639 fol. 326v

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Basil the Great, name inscribed, nimbed, wearing bishop’s vestments with cross-inscribed omophorion, holding book, forming part of initial Tau.
Illustration for the reading Luke 2:20, 21, 40-52 for January 1 (Feast of Basil the Great).