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MIDDLE BYZANTINE MANUSCRIPTS & PRECIOUS OBJECTS

After Iconoclasm the arts were revived

Chludov Psalter, c. 850-75
Ivory Sceptre of Leo VI, 886-912

Ms. of the Homilies of St. Gregory Nazianzen, (The Paris Gregory) 879-83.

A period of brilliant achievement in Byzantine civilization, associated with the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, an artist and scholar, reigned 913-59.

Icon from Mt. Sinai with King Abgar (portrait of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) holding the Mandylion, c. 945
Cross Reliquary 920-30

Nicander manuscripts, treatises on natural history, snakes, 10th century
Joshua Rotulus mid 10th century
Bible of Leo the Patrician, 930-940
Paris Psalter, 950-70

Ivory with Christ crowning Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, c. 945
Triptych of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos, 945-59
Harbaville Triptych, 10th century
Ivories of the Virgin, 10th-11th century
Christ Crowning Romanos II and Eudocia, 945-949
Narrative Ivories, late 10th, early 11th centuries
Veroli Casket, 10th century

Beresford Hope Cross, early 9th century
Fieschi Morgan Reliquary, early 9th century
Reliquary of the True Cross (Limburg Staurotheca), 968-85
Chalice of the Emperor Romanus, 959-63, Treasury of San Marco
Votive Crown of Leo VI, 886-912
Clasp of a necklace with the Virgin, 10th century
Crown of Constantine IX, 1074-7
Royal Crown of Hungary  
  

ELEVENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPTS

Psalter of Basil II, 976-1025
Menologion of Basil II, late 10th, early 11th century
Dumbarton Oaks Psalter, 11th century
Gospel Book with Last Judgement, 1050-1075

TWELFTH CENTURY

Madonna and Child between John II Comnenus and Irene c. 1118, Hagia Sophia south gallery
Gospel Book, John II and Alexios with Christ, 1125-35

The Virgin of Vladimir Icon, 12th century
Icon of the Annunciation, Mt. Sinai, 12th century
Two-sided icon of the Virgin Hodegetria and the Dead Christ  

St. Panteleimon, Nerezi, 1164
Compare Lamentation over the dead Christ by Giotto, Arena Chapel, Padua 1304-6

St. George, Kurbinovo, 1191
 

Manuscript of the Sermons of Jacob of Kokkinobaphos, 1130-50
Sermons of St. Gregory of Nazianzos, 1136-55
Incense Burner in the shape of a church