File:BnF MS Gr510 folio 440 recto - detail - Constantine's Dream.jpg

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English: Constantine's dream in a 9th century Byzantine manuscript.

According to Latin writer Lactantius, the Roman emperor Constantine had a vision in a dream, on the eve of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in October 312 AD, which prompted his conversion to Christianity.

Detail from a Greek manuscript dated 879-883 AD and containing the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, now in the National Library of France.

(BnF MS Gr510 folio 440 recto - detail)
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Illustrated painted parchment Greek manuscript (879-883 AD) of the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (BnF MS grec 510) folio 440r.

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