Armenia / Iran: The Baptism of Christ - Christ with his feet on the head of a dragon. Illumination from a gospel by Mesrop of Khizan (c. 1560-c. 1652), 1615

Mesrop of Khizan was a prominent Armenian manuscript illuminator in Persia. Mesrop was born in the Ottoman Empire but eventually lived in Isfahan, Persia, where he contributed in the making of manuscripts for bibles and gospels for four decades.

He was also a scribe, clerk, teacher, doctor of theology, restorer and binder.

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