Un miniatore nella bottega degli Astrapas? Alcune osservazioni attorno alle immagini del Tolomeo Marciano gr. Z. 516 (904)

Between the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth, Thessaloniki was a flourishing and cosmopolitan city: in this context was realized the Ptolemy Marc. gr. Z. 516 (904), then belonging to cardinal Basilios Bessarion and today preserved in the Marciana Library of Venice. Copied in Greek by a Frank named Andrea Teluntas, the manuscript contained also a cryptic cycle of illumination that once Italo Furlan defined as an ethic and philosophical Christian Weltanschauung.The paper focuses on the illuminated cycle contained in the Ptolemy Marc. gr. Z. 516 (904), analyzing its artistic and literary sources and providing also a stylistic reading of it.