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1. This abstract summarizes research that will be included in ‘The Sources of the Miniatures in the Byzantine Manuscripts of the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes’, D.Phil dissertation, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (expected submission date May 2006). The research is supervised by Dr Marlia Mango and generously funded by the Costopoulos Scholarship for Byzantine Studies. The ninth‐century manuscript is in Rome (Biblioteca Vaticana, codex Gr. 699), and the eleventh‐century manuscripts are in Sinai (Saint Catherine Monastery, codex Gr. 1186) and Florence (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, codex Plut. IX.28). Among the modern editions of the text of the Christian Topography, the only one which takes into consideration all three manuscripts and devotes some attention to the miniatures is Wanda Wolska‐Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustès, Topographie Chrétienne, vols. I–III, Sources Chrétiennes 141, 159, 197 (Paris, Lés Éditions du Cerf, 1968, 1970, 1973).

2. On Theodore and the theory of the Two Conditions, see Robert Devreesse, Essai sur Théodore de Mopsueste, Studi e Testi 141 (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 1948), esp. 99–101. On the influence of Theodore on the East Syrian School, see Lucas van Rompay, ‘Quelques remarques sur la tradition syriaque de l'oeuvre exégétique de Théodore de Mopsueste’, in IV Symposium Syriacum, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 229 (Rome, Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1987), 33–43.

3. For analysis of the scientific and cosmographical theses in the Christian Topography, see Wanda Wolska, La Topographie Chretienne de Cosmas Indicopleustes, Théologie et Science au VIe siècle (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1962). For the link between Cosmas and the school of Nisibis, see the introduction to Homélies de Narsaï sur la Création, ed. Phillippe Gignoux; Patrologia Orientalis 34 (Brussels, Brepols, 1968), fasciculi 3–4.

4. A. Bauer and J. Strzygowski, Eine alexandrinische Weltchronik, Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wisenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch—Historische Klasse, vol. 51 (Vienna, In Kommission bei Carl Gerolds Sohn, 1905).

5. See, for example, N. Duval, ‘Les represépresentation architecturales sur les mosaïques chrétiennes de Jordanie’, in Les Églises de Jordanie et leur mosaïques, ed. N. Duval (Beirut, Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche‐Orient, 2003), 211–85.

1. This abstract derives from work in progress for a doctoral thesis to be presented to the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York, in late 2005. Research for this project has been made possible by fellowships from the J. B. Harley Research Trust (2004), the American Academy in Rome (2003–2005), and the Newberry Library (2003).

2. No example of the Bufalini Plan from the edition of 1551 seems to have survived. A second edition was printed in 1561, of which two complete examples are known, one at the Vatican Library (Stampati St.Geogr.I.620.Riserva), and the other at the British Library (Maps S.T.R.[1.]). The Vatican also has an incomplete example (Stampati Cod.Barb.lat.4432). To date, the only study to focus on the Bufalini Plan is by Francesco Ehrle, Roma al tempo di Giulio III: la pianta di Roma di Leonardo Bufalini del 1551 riprodotta dall'esemplare esistente nella Biblioteca Vaticana a cura della biblioteca medesima con introduzione di Francesco Ehrle S. I. (Rome, Danesi, 1911). The most authoritative catalogue of maps and views of Rome is Amato Pietro Frutaz, Le piante di Roma, 3 vols. (Rome, Istituto di studi romani, 1962).

3. On the Rosselli view, see David Friedman, ‘“Fiorenza”: geography and representation in a 15th‐century city view’, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 64 (2001): 56–77. On the Barbari view, see Juergen Schulz, ‘Jacopo de' Barbari's view of Venice: map making, city views, and moralized geography before the year 1500’, Art Bulletin 60 (1978): 425–75.

4. For more information on the history of this type of map, see John Pinto, ‘Origins and development of the ichnographic city plan’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 35 (1976): 33–50. On Alberti's treatise, the Descriptio urbis Romae, see Luigi Vagnetti, ‘Lo studio di Roma negli scritti albertiani’, in Convegno internazionale indetto nel V centenario di Leon Battista Alberti (Rome, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1974), 73–137; Leon Battista Alberti, Descriptio urbis Romae: édition critique, traduction et commentaire par Martine Furno et Mario Carpo (Geneva, Droz, 1999). For an introduction to Leonardo da Vinci's cartography, see Roberto Almagià, ‘Leonardo da Vinci geografo e cartografo’, in Atti del convegno di studi vinciani indetto dalla unione regionale delle province toscane e dalle università di Firenze, Pisa e Siena: Firenze–Pisa–Siena 15–18 Gennaio 1953 (Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 1953), 451–66; Carlo Pedretti, Leonardo: il Codice Hammer e la Mappa di Imola presentati da Carlo Pedretti: arte e scienza a Bologna in Emilia Romagna nel primo Cinquecento (Florence, Giunti Barbèra, 1985). The most recent and exhaustive examination of Raphael's letter to Leo X is by Francesco P. di Teodoro, Raffaello, Baldassar Castiglione e la Lettera a Leone X: ‘… con lo aiutto tuo mi sforcerò vendicare dalla morte quel poco che resta …’ Con l'aggiunta di due saggi raffaelleschi (Bologna, Minerva Edizioni, 2003).