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Joshua Roll
The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance,〔"The 10th-century Joshua Roll is interesting as an example of Byzantine illuminated manuscript that shows the tenacious influence of Greco-Roman painting." Excerpted from ("painting, Western." ) ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 12 January 2007.〕 believed to have been created by artists of the Imperial workshops in Constantinople,〔"These illustrated book rolls could well have been derived from classical triumph columns whose artistic contents were rediscovered at the time when our manuscript was made. The Joshua Roll is generally thought to go back to Greco-Roman forms and painting."()〕 and now in the Vatican Library.〔(as "Palat. Gr. 431", in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana )〕
==Form and content==
The Roll is in the form of a continuous horizontal scroll or ''rotulus'', common in Chinese art, but all but unique in surviving examples of medieval Christian art.〔Most ''rotuli'', illuminated or not, are vertical in format.〕 It is made of several joined pieces of sheep vellum, is 31 cm high and about 10 metres long, and may be incomplete, as it starts with Chapter II and ends with Chapter X.〔(Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts of the Medieval Period )〕〔Schapiro, however, wonders if the manuscript, which covers Joshua's main military campaigns, was ever intended to be longer than it is. Chapters II-X according to Schapiro, I-XII according to Carleton College below.〕 The Roll covers the early part of the Old Testament Book of Joshua using a reduced version of the Septuagint text; it includes Joshua's main military successes, ending with conquered kings paying him homage. At roughly this time, the Byzantine empire was enjoying military success in its campaigns in the Holy Land. It was originally painted in grisaille, by several artists, with partial coloring added later in a separate stage. The lettering is in majuscule and minuscule forms.〔
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