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Peter
Darby

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2020

article
Darby, Peter, “The presentation of Jerome’s first letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch diagram”, Peritia 31 (2020): 59–87.  
abstract:

A diagram in the first quire of the Codex Amiatinus features five textual captions arranged in cruciform formation, one for each book of the Pentateuch. These are taken from Jerome’s first letter to Paulinus of Nola (Epistle 53) which was written in 394 AD. This article examines the diagram’s colours, geometric structure, manuscript location and script. It suggests that the Pentateuch diagram should be regarded as a highly original piece of visual exegesis designed to celebrate the contribution made by Jerome to the transmission of the Latin Bible and point the viewer towards typological interpretations of Old Testament figures and events.

abstract:

A diagram in the first quire of the Codex Amiatinus features five textual captions arranged in cruciform formation, one for each book of the Pentateuch. These are taken from Jerome’s first letter to Paulinus of Nola (Epistle 53) which was written in 394 AD. This article examines the diagram’s colours, geometric structure, manuscript location and script. It suggests that the Pentateuch diagram should be regarded as a highly original piece of visual exegesis designed to celebrate the contribution made by Jerome to the transmission of the Latin Bible and point the viewer towards typological interpretations of Old Testament figures and events.

2012

work
Darby, Peter, Bede and the end of time, Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. xv + 261 pp.