File:BnF MS Gr510 folio 440 recto - detail - Constantine's Dream.jpg
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DescriptionBnF MS Gr510 folio 440 recto - detail - Constantine's Dream.jpg |
English: Constantine's dream in a 9th century Byzantine manuscript.
According to Latin writer Lactantius, the Roman emperor Constantine had a vision in a dream, on the eve of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in October 312 AD, which prompted his conversion to Christianity. Detail from a Greek manuscript dated 879-883 AD and containing the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, now in the National Library of France. (BnF MS Gr510 folio 440 recto - detail) |
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Illustrated painted parchment Greek manuscript (879-883 AD) of the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (BnF MS grec 510) folio 440r. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84522082/f891 |
Author | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
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