The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an example of a Gospel Lectionary written in the archaic, majuscule form of Greek letters. Liturgical books were inherently conservative and therefore commonly retained such antiquated writing. The scribe, a certain monk Theodore, has recorded his name in a verse at the end of the volume (fol. 179v). A leaf removed from this manuscript ca. 1900 is now in Sofia, National Library of Republic of Bulgaria NBKM Gr. 2.
Upright pointed majuscule in brown ink; one hand throughout manuscript; second hand added the ekphionetic notation, titles, liturgical notes, and initials
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 347-348 with pls. liii and lxxi
W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament (Chicago, 1939), pl. lxvii, with description on the facing page
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453 (Leidenl, 1981), 73 with fig. 528, cat. 301
K. Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des 9. und 10. Jahrhunderts: Addenda und Appendix. (Vienna, 1996), 92 with figs. 685–86
G. R. Parpulov, “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum”, Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004), 71-189, esp. 77-83
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Byzantine Empire
Second half of the 10th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Byzantine (?) squared wooden boards covered with red velvet ca. 1920-1930; flat spine; raised endbands; pastedowns and flyleaf of unwatermarked paper
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Church of St. Nicholas Gropnicki or the Virgin Gropnicka in Ohrid, Macedonia
Library of the Metropolitan Church of St. Clement, Ohrid, no. 49 , [church no longer extant] (provenance)
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Byzantine Empire
Second half of the 10th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Church of St. Nicholas Gropnicki or the Virgin Gropnicka in Ohrid, Macedonia
Library of the Metropolitan Church of St. Clement, Ohrid, no. 49 , [church no longer extant] (provenance)
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This is an example of a Gospel Lectionary written in the archaic, majuscule form of Greek letters. Liturgical books were inherently conservative and therefore commonly retained such antiquated writing. The scribe, a certain monk Theodore, has recorded his name in a verse at the end of the volume (fol. 179v). A leaf removed from this manuscript ca. 1900 is now in Sofia, National Library of Republic of Bulgaria NBKM Gr. 2.
Upright pointed majuscule in brown ink; one hand throughout manuscript; second hand added the ekphionetic notation, titles, liturgical notes, and initials
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 347-348 with pls. liii and lxxi
W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament (Chicago, 1939), pl. lxvii, with description on the facing page
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453 (Leidenl, 1981), 73 with fig. 528, cat. 301
K. Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des 9. und 10. Jahrhunderts: Addenda und Appendix. (Vienna, 1996), 92 with figs. 685–86
G. R. Parpulov, “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum”, Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004), 71-189, esp. 77-83
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Clear All