File:BnF MS Gr139 folio 435 verso - detail - Nyx.jpg
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English: The goddess Nyx ("Night"; Greek: Νύξ, Núx; Latin: Nox) in a 10th-century Greek manuscript, the Paris Psalter.
According to 8th-century BC Greek poet Hesiod, Nyx was the daughter of Chaos. Here Nyx is labelled and shown nimbate with a dark complexion, with dark clothes and a starry mantle, and holding an inverted flaming torch. The full image shows the prophet Isiah flanked by Nyx and the Dawn (labelled "Όρθρος", "Orthros", "daybreak"), depicted as a boy carrying a flaming torch upright. The manus Dei appears to the top. The scene illustrates the Book of Isaiah 26:9: "ἐκ νυκτὸς ὀρθρίζει τὸ πνεῦμά μου πρὸς σέ, ὁ θεός, διότι φῶς τὰ προστάγματά σου ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς." "In the night my spirit rises early toward you (possibly eagerly seeks you), O God, because your ordinances are a light upon the earth" (NETS) NB: modern English translations do not use word the φῶς, "light", which is not in the Hebrew text. e.g.:
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Illustrated painted parchment Greek manuscript psalter (the "Paris Psalter", c. 940–960 AD) in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (BnF MS grec 139) folio 435v. [1] |
Author | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
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