Acknowledgements

All the articles, but two, are reprinted here as they were published, by the gracious permission of their publishers. “Remarks on the Mosaic Floor from Shellal and the Gaza Area Mosaic Workshop,” in Jews, Samaritans and Christians in the Holy Land in the Byzantine Period, ed. David Jacoby and Yoram Tsafrir, Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 1988, 207–214 was translated from Hebrew into English by Samuel Rausnitz and is published by permission of Yad Ben Tzvi. The history of the other new article, “Birds in Heaven” is related in the Preface above.

Thanks are extended to the Editor of the Revue des études arméniennes for permission to reprint: “An Illuminated Armenian Gospel in the National and University Library, Jerusalem,” REArm 14 (1980), 435–441; “The Peregriantio Paphnutiana and Jerusalem MS 285”, REArm 18 (1984), 179–196; “A Pair of Armenian Manuscript Missals in the Library of Congress,” REArm 29 (2003–04), 383–401; “The Transfiguration in Armenian Art,” REArm 32 (2010), 201–213; “The Illumination of non-Biblical Armenian Manuscripts,” REArm 33 (2011), 251–281; “A Handsome Armenian Gospel Leaf,” REArm 33 (2011), 239–250; “An Embellished Initial in a Jerusalem Document,” REArm 34 (2012) 371–384. Thanks are extended to the Society of Biblical Literature for permission to reprint: “The Kaffa Manuscript of the Lives of the Desert Fathers,” in Medieval Armenian Culture, ed. Thomas J. Samuelian and Michael E. Stone, (University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies, 6) Chico: Scholars Press, 1984, 329–342 “Judith and Holofernes: Some Observations on the Development of the Scene in Art,” in “No One Spoke Ill of Her”: Essays on Judith, ed. James C. VanderKam (SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature, 2) Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992, 73–93; to the Editor of Hebrew University Armenian Series for permission to reprint: “Jerusalem as a Point of Conversion from Sin to Sainthood: A Story of a Woman Pilgrim in Art,” The Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, eds. Michael E. Stone, Roberta R. Ervine and Nira Stone (Hebrew University Armenian Series, 4) Leuven: Peeters, 2002, 221–230; to Aarhus University Press for permission to reprint “The Relationship between Text and Illustration,” in Armenian Texts, Tasks and Tools, ed. Henning Lehmann and Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Acta Jutlandica LXIX:1, Humanities Series 68), Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1993, 92–100; to Editions du Zèbre for permission to reprint “Apocryphal Stories in Armenian Manuscripts,” Apocryphes arméniens: transmission—traduction—création—iconographie, ed. V. Calzolari Bouvier, Jean-Daniel Kaestli and Bernard Outtier, (Publications de l’Institut romand des sciences bibliques, 1), Lausanne: Zèbre, 1999, 161–169; to The Australian Association for Byzantine Studies for permission to reprint: “Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration,” in Byzantine Narrative: Papers in Honour of Roger Scott ed. John Burke et alii (Byzantina Australiensia, 16), Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 2006, 284–291; and to Mohr Siebeck for permission to reprint “The Four Rivers that Flowed from Eden,” in Beyond Eden: The Biblical Story of Paradise (Genesis 2–3) and Its Reception History, eds. Konrad Schmid and Christoph Riedweg (Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008, 227–250.

The images in the book are used with express permission of copyright holders. We have strived to maintain the integrity of the original articles by reprinting them verbatim and using the same images selected by Nira Stone. However, when it was not possible to obtain permissions to reproduce the original images, we were bound to remove or replace them. We wish to express our gratitude to the institutions and individuals who have graciously permitted us to reprint the images in this book: to the late Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Archbishop Torgom Manoogian; Mashtots Matenadaran, Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Erevan, and its late directors Prof. Sen Arevshatyan and Hrač‘ya T‘amrazyan; the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem; Mr. Garo Nalbandian of Jerusalem; Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon; Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal; Bibliothèque nationale de France; Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA (Library Special Collections); Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana; Prof. Michael Gervers; The Pierpont Morgan Library; The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College Oxford; The British Library Board; The Library of Congress; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress; The National Library of Russia; Dr. David Jeselsohn; The Library of the Mekhitarist Fathers, Venice. The editors also wish to express their thanks and appreciation to those institutions who freely share of their collections with those pursuing scholarly research. A full acknowledgement and attribution of images to their respective copyright holders can be found below, in a full list of images, pp. X–XIV.