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Abstract
This Gospel Book is representative of a large group of illuminated manuscripts produced during the second half of the twelfth century and possibly in the first decades after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its one surviving miniature was painted over in the twentieth century but retains some of its original character. Each Gospel opens with an exuberantly ornamented headpiece.
Date
Early 13th century CE
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Support material
Parchment
Good quality, no significant defects
Extent
Foliation: i+233
Flyleaf included in foliation, and therefore runs through 234; foliation in pencil in upper right corners of rectos
Collation
Formula: 1(8), 2(6), 3(8,-3,4), 4-6(8), 7(10,-2,9), 8(8), 9(10,-3,9), 10-14(8), 15(6,-6), 16(2,-2), 17-30(8), 31(8,-8)
Catchwords: None
Signatures: Often trimmed, on first folio of each quire, middle of upper margin, separately for each Gospel
Comments: Quires begin on fols. 2(1), 10(2), 16(3), 22(4), 30(5), 38(6), 46(7), 54(8), 62(9), 70(10), 78(11), 86(12), 94(13), 102(14), 110(15), 115(16), 116(17), 124(18), 132(19), 140(20), 148(21), 156(22), 164(23), 172(24), 180(25), 188(26), 196(27), 204(28), 212(29), 220(30), 228(31)
Dimensions
16.5 cm wide by 23.0 cm high
Written surface
9.8 cm wide by 14.7 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1r - 234v:Decoration:
fol. 2r:
fol. 69v:
fol. 70r:
fol. 115v:
St. Luke
Fol. 115 certainly belonged to the manuscript from an early date, and the faded inscription with the name of St. Luke above the frame is written in magenta ink and perhaps in the scribeâs hand. The miniature, however, is almost entirely painted over. Its colors differ noticeably from those used in the four headpieces and initials, which are original to the volume.
fol. 116r:
fol. 188r:
Binding
The binding is not original.
Greek; perhaps seventeenth-century; tooled brown goatskin over grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs on exterior of upper and lower boards; many quires fortified with paper at gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns; parchment flyleaf, probably added by Leon Gruel (foliated as fol. 1); traces of pins and fastening braids
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 358â359
O. Demus, âStudien zur byzantinischen Buchmalerei des 13. Jahrhunderts,â Jahrbuch der Ãsterreichischen byzantinischen Gesellschaft 9 (1960), 77â89, esp. 80â84
H. Buchthal, âStudies in Byzantine Illumination of the Thirteenth Century,â Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 25 (1983), 27â102, esp. 68â70
A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150â1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition (Chicago and London, 1987), 210
G. R. Parpulov, âA Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museumâ, Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004), 71-189, esp. 104-106
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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