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2 unusual facts about Chludov Psalter


Chludov Psalter

Nikodim Kondakov hypothesized that the psalter was created in the famous monastery of St John the Studite in Constantinople.

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John is caricatured, here as on other pages, with untidy straight hair sticking out in all directions, which was considered ridiculous by the elegant Byzantines.



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