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.
Type
Gospel Book
Date
586
Place of origin
Monastery of St. John of Zagba, Northern Mesopotamia or Syria
Language(s)
Syriac
Scribe(s)
Rabbula
Size
34 cm × 27 cm
Script
Syriac
Contents
Four Canonical Gospels (Peshitta version)
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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The RabbulaGospels, or Rabula Gospels (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. Plut. I, 56) is a 6th-century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book. One...
stance of that bishopric. Rabbula is not to be confused with the otherwise unknown scribe of the 6th century RabbulaGospels. Venerated as a Saint by Eastern...
of the Gospels and have been applied as proof texts for the creation of critical editions of the Ethiopic Gospels by Rochus Zuurmond (Gospel of Mark...
The Gospel of John (Ancient Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, romanized: Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels in the New...
of the four gospels or Vetus Syra is preserved today in only four manuscripts, both with a large number of gaps. The Curetonian Gospels consist of fragments...
the beginning of the Gospel of Luke. Other early Christian gospels, such as the so-called "Jewish-Christian Gospels" or the Gospel of Thomas, also offer...
Greek, there are also manuscripts from the Syriac Church, such as the RabbulaGospels, and Armenian illuminated manuscripts which are heavily influenced...
hand. The RabbulaGospels, an illuminated manuscript prepared in 586 in the Monophysite monastery of Beth-Zagba. It contains the four Gospels and is kept...
century, ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches. The RabbulaGospels (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the ascension. Many...
is in the Gospels, where Jesus is given a sponge soaked in oxos (conventionally translated as "vinegar") during his crucifixion; the Gospel of John mentions...
miniatures in the RabbulaGospels. Based on this it is unlikely that this manuscript was made much later than were the Rabula Gospels of 586. The manuscript...
theological discussions of the late 4th and early 5th centuries. The RabbulaGospels (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the Crucifixion and...
narrative Gospel cycles from manuscripts in the period are Greek, notably the Rossano Gospels, and Sinope Gospels, or the Syriac RabbulaGospels. The equivalent...
change in the theological focus of the early Church. The sixth-century RabbulaGospels include some of the earliest images of the crucifixion and resurrection...
the famous late sixth-century depiction of the crucifixion in the RabbulaGospels. In medieval art, St Dismas is often depicted as accompanying Jesus...
that in the RabbulaGospels often show Christ flanked by Longinus and Stephaton with their spear and pole with vinegar. According to the gospels, the vinegar...
soaked in vinegar while on the cross appears in all four of the canonical gospels, with some variation. In both Mark 15:35–36 and Matthew 27:47–48, just...
The crucifixion darkness is an event described in the synoptic gospels in which the sky becomes dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly...
Abbaye aux-dames Sainte-Trinité Caen, 1862 Early depiction from the RabbulaGospels, 6th century Wolfegg Castle, 15th century Russian icon, 15th century...
later depictions, with an Ascension scene above. The late 6th-century RabbulaGospel book which includes one of the earliest Crucifixion sequences in a manuscript...
for this soldier is given in the canonical Gospels; the name Longinus is instead found in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. Longinus was not originally...
including Oescus and Ratiaria. The Page with the Crucifixion, from the "RabbulaGospels", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba (Syria), is completed...
that in the Gospels they had told the corporal matters, supported by his disciples and inspired by the Holy Spirit, he wrote a spiritual Gospel." Origen...
change in the theological focus of the early Church. The 6th-century RabbulaGospels includes some of the earliest surviving images of the crucifixion and...
of the New Testament, from the 5th/6th century RabbulaGospels – a 6th-century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book Khaboris Codex – a 10th century complete...
Evangelion — life of Jesus in the New Testament, 15th/16th century RabbulaGospels — the four Gospels, 586 Morgan MS 783 Morgan MS 784 Paris syr. MS 296, Io Schøyen...
century, although such mandorlas may have been depicted even before. The RabbulaGospels also show a mandorla in its Transfiguration in the late sixth century...
antiquity. He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the biblical text. As "Father...
literature is traditionally considered to include the following works: The Gospel of John The Johannine epistles The First Epistle of John The Second Epistle...