ABSTRACT
The miniatures treated in this chapter stand largely in contrast to the narrative scenes and cycles discussed above. Narrative scenes and author portraits are, broadly speaking, the two main approaches to the illumination of the scriptures bequeathed by late-antique book illustration. In its combination of the two principles, the Stavelot Bible is not with-out precedents in the late-antique period itself, notably the Syriac Bible in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. Syr. 341). 1 While it is evident that portraits do not generally lend themselves to the kind of typological allusions and serial groupings detected in the previous chapters, there are several important miniatures in the present class that resume the typological interests so powerfully proclaimed by the 'I' of Genesis.
