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Rabbula Gospels
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. I, 56
Folios 9v and 10r of the Rabbula Gospels, canon tables with portraits of the Four Evangelists, from left to right: John, Matthew, Luke, and Mark.
TypeGospel Book
Date586
Place of originMonastery of St. John of Zagba, Northern Mesopotamia or Syria
Language(s)Syriac
Scribe(s)Rabbula
Size34 cm × 27 cm
ScriptSyriac
ContentsFour Canonical Gospels (Peshitta version)
Folio 13v of the Rabbula Gospels contains a miniature of the Ascension.

The Rabbula Gospels, or Rabula Gospels (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. Plut. I, 56) is a 6th-century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book. One of the finest Byzantine works produced in West Asia, and one of the earliest Christian manuscripts with large miniatures, it is distinguished by the miniaturist's predilection for bright colours, movement, drama, and expressionism. Created during a period from which little art survived, it nevertheless saw great development in Christian iconography. The manuscript has a significant place in art history, and is very often referred to.

Recent scholarship has suggested that the manuscript, completed in 586 AD, was later partly overpainted by restorers and bound together with miniatures from other sources in the 15th or 16th century.[1]

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