A new AN Supplement: The Early Illustrated Apollonius of Tyre

We have just published a new supplement:

The Early Illustrated Apollonius of Tyre
Studies of a Sinai Palimpsest
Ancient Narrative Supplement 32
Edited by Michelle P. Brown and Jessica J. Lockhart

This volume presents the extraordinary discovery at St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai of a fragment of an early illustrated codex of the Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre, one of the most enduring works of literature of the past fifteen centuries. On parchment first reused for an Athanasian Creed and, since the ninth century, bound into one of the earliest Arabic Gospels (Sinai, Arabic New Finds 8 and 28), the fragment preserves three layers of textual history. Here, essays by experts in codicology, palaeography, literature, art history, textual editing, and cultural heritage imaging illuminate this Sinai palimpsest, offering new perspectives on the ancient novel and on late antique and early medieval Mediterranean networks of language, religion, patronage, and trade. The essays are accompanied by high-quality images, edited transcriptions, and an appendix that describes all the fragments in the manuscript.

Please visit the Archives of the Ancient Narrative website for the free files of the Frontmatter, the Introduction, Contributors, and Indices, or follow this link: https://ancientnarrative.com/issue/archive.

This title is published both as a hardcover print volume (€ 105,-) and as a PDF ebook (€ 17,- for private individuals). The PDF ebook for private individuals is only available on the website of Barkhuis Publishing.

 The hardcover print volume can be purchased at Barkhuis Publishing, Casemate Publishers, and Amazon.com.

Institutional buyers have their own channels to buy the printed book and the pdf ebook.