Illuminated manuscripts in classical and mediaeval times, their art and their technique
CHAPTER IV. Page 45 to 61.
BYZANTINE MANUSCRIPTS.
The very compound character of Byzantine art; love of splendour; _Gospels_ in purple and gold; monotony of the Byzantine style; hieratic rules; fifth century manuscript of _Genesis_; the Dioscorides of the Princess Juliana; the style of its miniatures; imitations of enamel designs; early picture of the Crucifixion in the _Gospels_ of Rabula; the splendour of Byzantine manuscripts of the _Gospels_; five chief pictures; illuminated "Canons"; Persian influence; the Altar-Textus used as a Pax; its magnificent gold covers; the Durham Textus; Byzantine figure drawing, unreal but decorative; Byzantine mosaics; the iconoclast schism, and the consequent decadence of Byzantine art.