Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN I 8

A full-page Byzantine illumination on a gold leaf background, enclosed within a red border. On the left, a large figure of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus stands wearing a patterned polystavrion (bishop's vestment with many crosses) and a white omophorion. He has a halo and is receiving a rolled scroll from the hand of Christ, who appears from a blue celestial segment (mandorla) at the top center. To the right, a smaller figure of a bishop, likely the donor or the metropolitan of Crete, stands in a prayerful posture (deesis) facing Saint Gregory. The ground is depicted as a dark green flowery meadow with stylized red-tipped plants.

GREGORY
THE THEOLOGIAN

the glories in the martyrdom?
and t...?

NEILOS
METROPOLITAN
OF CRETE

The inscription on the left identifies the primary figure as Saint Gregory the Theologian. The inscription on the right identifies the smaller figure as a Metropolitan of Crete, possibly Neilos.