Introduction

Music and instruments

Byzantine musicians of emperor Michael the 3rd playing in front of the residence of patriarch Ignatius.

Drawing, color, miniature, manuscript illumination. 1050 approx. Spain, Madrid, National Library, codex vitr. 26-2

Byzantine emperor Nicephoros Phocas enters Constantinople triumphantly.

Drawing, color, miniature, manuscript illumination. 1050 approximately. Spain, Madrid, National Library, codex vitr. 26-2.