« Latter-day » Saints and the Image of Christ in the Ninth-century Byzantine Marginal Psalters

Abstract

REB 45 1987 France p. 205-222, 4 pl. Ch. Walter, "Latter-day" Saints and the Image of Christ in the Ninth-century Byzantine Marginal Psalters. — The article begins with a repertory of these saints. The events in their Lives which made them relevant to the Iconophile cause are indicated. Then the central function of the image of Christ in the illustrative programme of these psalters is explained. On the basis of these elements, the case is presented for supposing that the extant psalters depend on a lost model, illuminated in Palestine in the late eighth century.