Joshua Roll

Sheet 3 of the Joshua Roll; Joshua and the Israelites
Portion of the Joshua Roll; scenes before the battle at Gibeon – the moon and sun are seen at the right.

The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance,[1] believed to have been created by artists of the imperial workshops in Constantinople,[2] and now in the Vatican Library.[3]

  1. ^ "Eastern Christiaan". Britannica. Retrieved 6 July 2022. The 10th-century Joshua Roll is interesting as an example of Byzantine illuminated manuscript that shows the tenacious influence of Greco-Roman painting.
  2. ^ "These illustrated book rolls could well have been derived from classical triumph columns whose artistic contents were rediscovered at the time when our manuscript was made. The Joshua Roll is generally thought to go back to Greco-Roman forms and painting."[1]
  3. ^ as "Palat. Gr. 431", in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana