Leaf from the Epistle to the Hebrews

Joannes Koulix

1101 · Tempera, gold and ink on parchment · The Cloisters

This leaf, the first page of Saint Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews written in Greek, is decorated with a handsome rectangular headpiece and a letter topped with a portrait bust of the author. The leaf was originally part of a Praxapostolos, a text used only for the celebration of the Eucharist, which was copied by the scribe Joannes Koulix in 1101. Most of the remainder of the manuscript is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

Artist

Joannes Koulix

Date

1101

Medium

Tempera, gold and ink on parchment

Culture

Byzantine

Department

The Cloisters

Credit line

Purchase, The Cloisters Collection, Rogers and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1991