Paris Gregory

Illustration of the First Council of Constantinople.

The Paris Gregory (BnF Grec 510) is an illuminated manuscript of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus commissioned in Constantinople by Patriarch Photios I as a commemoration to the Emperor Basil I between 879 and 883.[1] The illustrations from the manuscript are held today in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris as part of their collection of Greek manuscripts.

  1. ^ Brubaker, Leslie Politics, Patronage, and Art in Ninth Century Byzantium: The "Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris Dumbarton Oaks Papers vol 39 1985 p 1-13 (B.N. gr 510)