rumelia:examples of Ottoman-era Balkan Cyrillic Orthodox manuscripts influenced by Islamic illumin
rumelia: examples of Ottoman-era Balkan Cyrillic Orthodox manuscripts influenced by Islamic illumination and miniatures from the 16th and 17th cent. the first three belong to Jovan from Kratovo (today in Macedonia), who was the most obvious and probably most influential artist in this style, and the second two are from the Karan (near Užice, Serbia) gospel (1608), written by a priest named Vuk. its illuminations are most likely the work of a hired trained Muslim miniaturist (they were not hard to find back then) and Vuk was the one who wrote the text. taken from Joint issue of El Prezente: Studies in Sephardic Culture (vol. 7) & Menorah: Collection of Papers (vol. 3), dedicated to the subject of Common Culture and Particular Identities: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Balkans and edited by Eliezer Papo & Nenad Makuljević. -- source link