An illuminated page from an Armenian New Testament

inscribed in Turkey at the end of the 14th century.

The passage shown is Christ's nativity story.

Saint Matthew sits in a copyist's scriptorium,

inspired by an attending angel,

presumably quilling his gospel in koine Greek,

although the text we read

is the Latin of Saint Jerome's Vulgate.

 

 

 

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