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According to one tradition, the miniatures are supposed to have been created clandestinely, and many of them are directed against Iconoclasts. Many contain explanations of the drawings written next to them, and little arrows point out from the main text to the illustration, to show which line the
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In the illustration to the right, the miniaturist illustrated the line "They gave me gall to eat; and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink" with a picture of a soldier offering Christ vinegar on a sponge attached to a pole. Below is a picture of the last Iconoclast
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rubbing out a painting of Christ with a similar sponge attached to a pole. John is caricatured, here as on other pages, with untidy straight hair sticking out in all directions, which was considered ridiculous by the
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picture refers to. The polemical style of the whole ensemble is highly unusual, and a demonstration of the furious passions the Iconoclast dispute generated.
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The worn state of many pages is evidence of continuous use throughout centuries.
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The psalter measures 195 mm by 150 mm and contains only 169
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made in the middle of the 9th Century. It is a unique monument of
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until 1847, when a Russian scholar stole it and brought it to
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Chludov Psalter. Entry in the Manuscript Database of the
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hypothesized that the psalter was created in the famous
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Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters
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about three centuries later. The book contains the
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