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Homily
Coptic (Theogenidos (Perpnoute), Egypt)
Not on view
Deacon Gabri and his son, Makoure of Perpnoute, copied and painted this book, the Homily on God’s Mercifulness and the Freedom of Speech of Saint Michael Archangel. The text is attributed to Severus, the fifth-century Byzantine patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who spent his formative years in Alexandria, Egypt. On this page, the archangel Michael has features common to representations of him in Byzantine art, such as a trilobed scepter, an orb with a cross, and a diadem
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