Cotton Genesis

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The Cotton Genesis (London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho B VI) was a 5th or 6th century Greek copy of the Book of Genesis. It was a luxury manuscript with many illuminations. It was one of the oldest illustrated biblical codices to survive to the modern period. Sadly, in 1731 it was largely destroyed in the Cotton library fire. All that remains are eighteen charred, shrunken scraps of vellum. The remnants of the miniatures show that the miniatures were framed and inserted within the text column and that they were executed in late antique style comparable to the Catacomb frescos.

[edit] See also

• Early Christian art and architecture.

[edit] References

• Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983.
• Weitzmann, Kurt. Late Antique and Early Christin Book Illumination. New York: George Braziller, 1977.

[edit] External link

• British Library catalogue entry