Archivo: BnF MS Gr139 folio 435 verso - detail - Nyx

Descripción: The goddess Nyx ("Night"; Greek: Νύξ, Núx; Latin: Nox) in a 10th-century Greek manuscript, the Paris Psalter. According to 8th-century BC Greek poet Hesiod, Nyx was the daughter of Chaos. Here Nyx is labelled and shown nimbate with a dark complexion, with dark clothes and a starry mantle, and holding an inverted flaming torch. The full image shows the prophet Isiah flanked by Nyx and the Dawn (labelled "Όρθρος", "Orthros", "daybreak"), depicted as a boy carrying a flaming torch upright. The manus Dei appears to the top. The scene illustrates the Book of Isaiah 26:9: "ἐκ νυκτὸς ὀρθρίζει τὸ πνεῦμά μου πρὸς σέ, ὁ θεός, διότι φῶς τὰ προστάγματά σου ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς." "In the night my spirit rises early toward you (possibly eagerly seeks you), O God, because your ordinances are a light upon the earth" (NETS) NB: modern English translations do not use word the φῶς, "light", which is not in the Hebrew text. e.g.: "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness" (KJV)"My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness." (NIV) Detail from a Greek manuscript psalter dated c. 940–960 AD, now in the National Library of France: the Paris Psalter. (Parisianus graecus 139, folio 435 verso - detail)
Título: BnF MS Gr139 folio 435 verso - detail - Nyx
Créditos: Illustrated painted parchment Greek manuscript psalter (the "Paris Psalter", c. 940–960 AD) in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (BnF MS grec 139) folio 435v. [1]
Autor(a): Bibliothèque nationale de France
Términos de Uso: Dominio Público
Licencia: Dominio Público
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