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Walters Ms. W.530.F-G, Illustrations from a Gospel Book

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Walters Ms. W.530.F-G, Illustrations from a Gospel Book

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Manuscript

Illustrations from a Gospel Book


Text title

Leaves from a Gospel Book


Abstract

These pages once prefaced the Gospel texts of Luke and John in Mount Athos, Monastery of Great Lavra MS A76, dating to the late thirteenth century. The verso of St. Luke is blank, but the verso of St. John is illustrated with Christ appearing to his disciples after the Resurrection (John 20:19-23). Other detached leaves from this manuscript are now found in Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts Mn.Mas 2, and St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia MS gr. 305.


Date

Late 13th century CE





Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).


Support material

Parchment

Good quality, smooth and without defects


Extent

Foliation: 1+1

Not foliated


Collation

Formula: Cutting

Comments:


Dimensions

16.7 cm wide by 25.0 cm high


Contents:

fols. W.530.Fr - W.530.Gv:
  1. Title: Leaves from a Gospel Book
  2. Contents: Originally fols. 107bis and 170bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A76
  3. Decoration note: Two full-page miniatures, one full-page drawing

Decoration:

fol. W.530.Fr:

  2. Title: St. Luke
  3. Form: Full-page miniature
  4. Text: Gospel of Luke

fol. W.530.Gr:

  2. Title: St. John
  3. Form: Full-page miniature
  4. Text: Gospel of John

fol. W.530.Gv:

  2. Title: Christ appearing to his disciples after the Resurrection
  3. Form: Full-page drawing
  4. Text: Gospel of John (John 20:19-23)
  5. Label: Although the image on this leaf is painted in wash, it appears to be the work of the same hand as the Evangelists. The choice of scene for illustration on the back of the Evangelist John's portrait (which faced the beginning of his Gospel) is unusual.

Provenance

Fols. 107bis and 170bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A76

Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest


Bibliography

Clark, Kenneth. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 360-361.

K. Weitzmann, “A Fourteenth-Century Greek Gospel Book with Washdrawings.” Gazette des beaux-arts, series 6, 62 (1963): 91-108 [reproduced in idem. Byzantine Book Illumination and Ivories. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980, no. vi.]

Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 184-187, no. 52.

Evans, Helen, ed. Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, pp. 285-286, no. 170.

Parpulov, Georgi. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.


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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