The Cheirograph of Adam in Armenian and Romanian Traditions: New Texts and Images

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
Series Preface
Preface
Abbreviations and Critical Signs
Introduction
	The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam and the Aims of the Present Research
	The Legend of the Cheirograph, a Piece of the Secondary Adam Literature and Its Relationship to the Bible
	The Variation of an Apocryphal Story in Texts and Images
	The Cheirograph Legend, its Transmission and Implications
	The Written and Oral Literary Carriers
	Visual Supports
	Music
	Inherent Limitations of Our Analysis
	Final Musings on the Armenian Sources
	Appendix: The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam
Part 1: New Armenian Evidence for the Cheirograph Legend
	Armenian Folk Tales
	A Literary Text
	A Proposed New Piece of Armenian Iconographic Evidence
	New Armenian Evidence from Literary Texts
		The Legend of the Cheirograph and Darkness: Ancient Armenian References
			Step‘anos Siwnec‘i (eighth century)
			Yovhannēs Chorepiskopos (late seventh – eighth century)
			T‘ēop‘ilos (ninth century)
			Prayer for Epiphany ascribed to Basil of Caesarea (tenth or ninth century or earlier)
			The Epitome of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (before 981)
			Artawazd Mzazuni (tenth century)
			Anania Narekac‘i in Explanation of the Diophysite Dispute (tenth century)
			Grigor Magistros (eleventh century)
			Twelfth-century authors
Part 2: New Romanian Evidence for the Cheirograph Legend
	The Legend of the Cheirograph in the Romanian Literary Tradition
		The Life of Adam and Eve
		The Romanian Plaint of Adam
			The Plaint of Adam: an Authoritative Romanian Literary Piece about Adam and Eve
			The Legend of the Cheirograph in the Romanian PA
				A Significant Absence: The Plaint without the Legend of the Cheirograph
				A Literary Piece with an Additive Structure: PA with the Legend of the Cheirograph
			The Variation of the Legend of the Cheirograph in PA
				Version A
				Version B
				Version C
				Version D
			The Use of PA Containing the Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam
		The Legend of the Cheirograph in Traditional Romanian Beliefs
		The Legend of the Cheirograph in Folk Poetry
		Conclusions
	Iconography
		Adam signing the Cheirograph
			A Rare Iconographic Pattern and its Apocryphal Source
			An Apocryphal Depiction for Princes and Archbishops
			The Life of Adam and Eve in the Genesis cycles
			The Genesis Cycles and their Iconographic Context
		The Baptism with Christ Standing on a Stone Holding a Scroll in His Left Hand upon Which is Written (in Slavonic) ‘Cheirograph of Adam’
			Sucevița: The Cheirograph Written and Torn
			Vatra Moldoviţei: The Cheirograph Written and Torn
			Dragomirna: The Prominence of an Apocryphal Theme
		Christ on a Rock in the Baptism with or without Serpents
			Wallachia, then Moldova
			Illuminations in Deluxe Manuscripts from Wallachia and Moldova
		Christ Tearing the Cheirograph
			The right moment to tear the Cheirograph
			Whose Cheirograph?
		Conclusions
Between Literary and Iconographic Tradition
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources
Index of Manuscripts
General Index of Subjects and Proper Names