Studies in Armenian art : collected papers / by Nira Stone ; edited by Michael E. Stone, Asya Bereznyak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An illuminated Armenian gospel manuscript in the National and University Library, Jerusalem -- The Kaffa manuscript of the Lives of the Desert Fathers -- The Peregrinatio Paphnutiana and Jerusalem ms 285 -- Notes on the floor mosaic from Shellal (Besor Spring) and the mosaic workshop near Gaza -- Judith and Holofernes : some observations on the development of the scene in art -- The relationship between text and illustration -- Apocryphal stories in Armenian manuscripts -- Jerusalem as a point of conversion from sin to sainthood, a story of a woman pilgrim in art -- A pair of Armenian manuscript missals in the Library of Congress -- Narrativity in Armenian manuscript illustration -- The four rivers that flowed from Eden -- The illuminations of the Transfiguration -- The illumination of non-biblical Armenian manuscripts -- A handsome Armenian gospel leaf -- An embellished initial in a Jerusalem document -- Birds from heaven in heavenly Jerusalem.