MANUSCRIPTS

Click to enlarge illuminated photos of manuscript

Photos from the illuminated MS An Namuss Ash Shariff or the Book of Canons, 1866, written by Constantine Daoud of Homs, 44x29 cm.


The letter of Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and his bishops, to the Bishop of Rome on the problem of  simony.


A beautiful index of famous names in the manuscript


Some of the Canons from the Council of
Cartage

With His twelve disciples, Christ is pictured holding the "rudder," the symbol of Canons in the Church

The tree designed to explain the Canon that forbids the marriage of a man and woman who are related by blood to the sixth degree or less.


Illuminated Icon of the Holy Trinity, the One God.

 

 


Front page of the Manuscript