A view of the city : the urban landscape and its architectural imagery in the Ashburnham Pentateuch

Of the surviving eighteen folios illustrating the Genesis and Exodus narratives in the late antique manuscript, the Ashburnham Pentateuch (“AP”), all but a few pages are dominated by elaborate cityscapes. Indeed, as a work of art, the city defines much of the narrative space in the miniatures. It pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tuttle, Kimberly
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12265