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Walters Ms. W.839, Single leaf with Christ's entombment and resurrection

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Manuscript

Single leaf with Christ's entombment and resurrection

Text title

Fragmentary leaf

Abstract

This fragmentary leaf once belonged to an Ethiopian Gospel book from the Lake Tana region. Dating from the late fourteenth century, the leaf contains two images from a prefatory cycle depicting the Passion of Christ, which would have preceded the Gospels. On the recto, a shrouded Christ is carried to the tomb by Joseph and Nicodemus. The verso depicts the resurrected Christ, accompanied by the Archangel Michael, appearing before Mary Magdalene, St. John, and St. Peter. Intact Gospel books with comparable image cycles, such as that at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998.66), and the J. Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M828, demonstrate that these two images likely fell between depictions of the Crucifixion and the Ascension.

Date

Late 14th century CE

Origin

Lake Tana, Ethiopia

Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Geez.

Support material

Parchment

Heavy darkened, partially fragmentary parchment

Extent

Foliation: Not applicable

Dimensions

27.0 cm wide by 38.8 cm high

Layout

1. Image: 22.2 cm wide x 28.2 cm high

Contents:

1. Title: Fragmentary leaf
2. Decoration note: Two full-page miniatures painted in orange, yellow, green, black, blue, and salmon tempera, now badly abraded; decorative headpiece; orange border

Decoration:

fol. W.839r:

2. Title: Burial of Christ by Joseph and Nicodemus
3. Form: Full-page miniature
4. Comment:

   The inscription on the image reads: "በ/ዘከመ፡ ገነዝዎ፡ ዮሴፍ፡ ወኒቆዲሞስ፡ (bä/zä-kämä gänäzǝwwo yosef wä-niqodimos)," or "How Joseph and Nicodemus shrouded him." (Jn 19:38-40)

fol. W.839v:

2. Title: Christ resurrected, with the Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, St. John, and St. Peter
3. Form: Full-page miniature

Provenance

Originally created as part of a Gospel book's prefatory cycle, Lake Tana, Ethiopia, late fourteenth century

Joseph and Margaret Knopfelmacher collection, New York, before 1996

Acquisition

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Knopfelmacher, 1996

Bibliography

Holbert, Kelly, ed. Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 2001, pp. 98-99, cat. no. 11.

Mann, C. Griffith. "A Devotional Ethiopian Icon Acquired in Honor of the Director (36.16)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 191-193, p. 192, fig. 2.

Contributors

Principal cataloger: Getatchew Haile, .

Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley

Editor: Herbert, Lynley

Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Isaac, Ephraim; 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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