Understanding the Genesis of a Multi-Layered Byzantine Manuscript. The Illuminated Copy of Elias of Crete’s Commentary on Gregory Nazianzen (Basel, UB, AN I 8). Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik|Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 70. Band|

It has been widely agreed that the manuscript Basel, UB, AN I 8, featuring the second part of Elias of Crete’scommentary to the “unread” homilies of Gregory Nazianzen, was decorated with an impressive set of full-page illuminationsserving as frontispieces to each commentary in a second phase, sometime after the text and initial portraits had been copied.Karin Krause’s recent and well-documented article called for a re-examination of this book’s genetic history. The study herefocuses on several of its most surprising features, offering a fresh look and a hopefully more plausible explanation for theorigin and production process of these images