# The Joshua Roll [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Greek]() - Date: 0901-0950 - Technique: Roll \(Pal. gr. 431\), 315 mm high, 10,64 m long ## Commentary The Joshua Roll 913-50 Roll \(Pal. gr. 431\), 315 mm high, 10,64 m long Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican This book roll exists only as incomplete segments. They contain the Greek text of the Book of Joshua and illustrations relating to it. They show the triumphant conquest of the Promised Land by the Old Testament hero, the very epitome of a leader and the saviour of his people. The Joshua Roll is the only surviving example of a rotulus \(book roll\) illuminated throughout, across its entire breadth, with a continuous pictorial frieze. This portion shows scenes before the battle at Gibeon ## Related artworks - [Bible of Leo the Patrician]() - [Codex Purpureus Rossanensis \(Rossano Gospels\)]() - [Codex Purpureus Rossanensis \(Rossano Gospels\)]() - [Codex Purpureus Rossanensis \(Rossano Gospels\)]() - [Collection of Medical Texts]() - [Collection of Medical Texts]() - [Evangeliary]() - [Gospel Book]() - [Gospel Book]() - [Homer: Iliad]() - [Homilies of Ioannes Chrysostomos]() - [Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()