The Madrid Skylitzes is a twelfth century illuminated manuscript version of the Synopsis of Histories (Greek: Σύνοψις Ἱστοριῶν, Byzantine Greek:[ˈsy̜.nop.sisis.to.riˈon]), by John Skylitzes, which covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057.[1] The manuscript was produced at the Norman court of Palermo in Sicily and is now housed in the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. It remains the only preserved Greek-language illustrated chronicle from the Byzantine period.[2] The chronicle includes 574 miniatures detailing depictions of everyday life in the Byzantine Empire such as boats, literary practices, sieges, and ceremonies,[1] in "both purely Byzantine and Western styles while also reflecting Islamic elements".[3]
^ abSussex Centre for Byzantine Cultural History, University of Sussex. "The Madrid Skylitzes Project". www.sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
^Tsamakda, Vasiliki (2000). "The Miniatures of the Madrid Skylitzes". academia. p. 127. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
^Evans, Helen C. & Wixom, William D. (1997). The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261, p. 438. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780810965072. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
The MadridSkylitzes is a twelfth century illuminated manuscript version of the Synopsis of Histories (Greek: Σύνοψις Ἱστοριῶν, Byzantine Greek: [ˈsy̜...
religious texts, secular subjects are represented in chronicles (e.g. MadridSkylitzes), medical texts such as the Vienna Dioscurides, and some manuscripts...
13th-century MadridSkylitzes Example of a military banner appearing in the MadridSkylitzes Example of a military banner appearing in the MadridSkylitzes Example...
the chroniclers Leo the Deacon and John Skylitzes imply that Theophano was responsible, and according to Skylitzes, she had been complicit in an earlier...
Tsamakda, Vasiliki (2002). The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid. Leiden: Alexandros. p. 243. ISBN 90-806476-2-4. OCLC 51900961. Norwich...
later Byzantine chroniclers like Genesios, Theophanes Continuatus, and Skylitzes, as well as a number of modern scholars like J. B. Bury and Alexander...
his son Theophylact Coronation of Michael I from the 12th-century MadridSkylitzes, probably drawn from an earlier unrelated source. Byzantines and Bulgarians...
have perished had not Basil II come to relieve him. According to John Skylitzes, the Emperor charged alone in front of his army to Diogenes' rescue. When...
Medieval Sourcebook. Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies. "MadridSkylitzes" (PDF) (in Ancient Greek). World Digital Library. Retrieved 2019-06-30...
University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2. Wortley, John, ed. (2010). John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057. Cambridge: Cambridge University...
orders his troops to torch their ships before their conquest of Crete (9th century). Miniature from the 12th-century Byzantine codex MadridSkylitzes....
to the emperor in the Hippodrome. Miniature from the 12th century MadridSkylitzes. "Hippodrome - Istanbul, Turkey Attractions". www.lonelyplanet.com...
393–397, 436–441. Runciman 1988, pp. 59–62. "Rus". Encyclopaedia of Islam Skylitzes, John (2010) [1057]. Synopsis of History. Translated by Wortley, John...
pravoslavna civilizacija" (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 12 March 2007. John Skylitzes. Skylitzes–Kedrenos, II, p. 254.4–16 Runciman, A history of the First Bulgarian...
Psellus, p. 269. Norwich, pg. 332 Psellus, p. 315. Editor's n. I. See also Skylitzes, p. 464, note 56. Charanis, Peter (1969) [1955]. "The Byzantine Empire...
Ian. "Selections on Byzantium. Selections from the Chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes, translated and adapted from B. Flusin and J.-C. Cheynet (2003)". Archived...
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