An edition and translation into German of the Greek Smyrna Physiologus, Evangelical School of Smyrna, B. 8, which was destroyed by fire in 1922. Includes notes and commentary, and reproductions of some of the black and white photographs taken of the manuscript before the fire.

...the cycle of images of the Greek Physiologus ... the material is limited to two pages, against the countless depictions of animals in Oriental-Christian art on the one hand and the mass of Western Physiologus pictures on the other. The work thus takes hold of an unmissable and hitherto almost unordered mass of material out a certain area. In which the author seeks to ensure this, he hopes for a gradual clarification of the preceding and subsequent development of the symbolic and ornamental animal depictions. - [Author]

Smyrna. Evangelike schole (Izmir, Turkey). Bibliotheke. Manuscripts (B8). With additions by Max Goldstaub.

130 p., plates, illustrations.

Language: German

LCCN: g01000975; LC: ND3399.P6S9