Maronite Icons and Liturgical Year

The Rabbula Manuscript from the 6th century was written and illuminated in the neighborhood of Antioch. It presents us through its marginal and full page miniatures the iconography of the syro-occidental liturgical year in its embryonic stage. It was written under the signature of the monk Rabbula in the Monastery of Beit Zaghba in Northern Syria in the neighborhood of Antioch. From the 6th c till the 11th its location is unknown. In the 11th century it reappeared in the Maronite Patriarchal Monastery of Ilige(Lebanon), in 1497, in the Patriarchal Monastery of Quannoubine. In 1652 it made its way to Europe first in Brittany and after in Bibliotheque nationale de France. Its last travel was 1747 to the Mediceo Laurentian Library in Florence. This manuscript is important because it is considered as the oldest Syriac illuminated manuscript. It represents the period of transition betwereen Paleo-Christian art and Iconographical art and it is a basic element for the Christian Iconography. Rabbula is well known by most of the Maronites as a maronite Monk who wrote the Gospel and used Icons to explain it.
Thanks for the angelic voice of Joumana Mdawar with the three hymns in this movie

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Education

Tags:

• Maronite
• Icons
• Rabbula
• Joumana Mdawar
• Syriac

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