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The Presentation of Jerome’s First Letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch Diagram (2020)
Journal Article
Darby, P. (2021). The Presentation of Jerome’s First Letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch Diagram. Peritia, 31, 59-87. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.PERIT.5.124469

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... Read More about The Presentation of Jerome’s First Letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch Diagram.

The Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini and the Gospel prefaces of Jerome (2017)
Journal Article
Darby, P. (2017). The Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini and the Gospel prefaces of Jerome. Speculum, 92(2), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1086/690754

Bede, iconoclasm and the Temple of Solomon (2013)
Journal Article
Darby, P. (2013). Bede, iconoclasm and the Temple of Solomon. Early Medieval Europe, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12024

In Bede's lifetime (c. 673–735) the churches at Wearmouth-Jarrow were richly decorated with panel paintings from Rome. This essay examines the significance that those paintings held for Bede and his community, and it reveals the strategies that Bede... Read More about Bede, iconoclasm and the Temple of Solomon.