In my recently published book Scribes and Scriptures: The Church of the East in the Eastern Ottoman Provinces, 1500-1850 (Peeters), no photographs, full-color or otherwise, were included. Perhaps the most beautiful manuscript that I encountered during my research was an illustrated Gospel Lectionary that is kept in the patriarchal library of Jerusalem. A few pictures might give you the look and feel of it. It was produced in Alqosh (north of Mosul, northern Iraq), in 1679, and intended for the ‘Church in Jerusalem’ – where, in one way or another, it clearly ended up, now under the name Jer. Syr 1, Gospel Lectionary (Greek Patriarchate Library). The manuscript was written by perhaps the most prolific scribe of his generation, Qasha (‘priest’) Giwargis, son of the deceased Qasha Israel, son of Qasha Hormizd, son of Qasha Israel Alqoshaya.
Globalization, Christianity and the Middle East 