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 manuscript contains the biographies of saints whom the church commemorates in the month of January. It was originally part of a set that covered the whole year. A companion volume, with texts for March, now survives in Moscow (State Historical Museum MS Synod. gr. 183). Each chapter in both manuscripts opens with a miniature depicting the death of the respective saint, or less often, another significant event from his or her life. Each text also ends with a seven-line prayer for the well-being of an unnamed emperor. The seven lines' initial letters invariably spell "MIC[H]AEL P.", most probably indicating that all the prayers were composed by "Michael the P(atriarch)". This must be Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 1043 to 1059. He must have commissioned the volumes for the purpose of being read out in the emperor's presence, probably in one of the numerous chapels of the great imperial palace. A single leaf from the Walters' volume is now kept in Berlin (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin MS graec. fol. 31). By the sixteenth century, a number of further folios were missing and paper leaves with text copied from a Metaphrastian Menologion were added to replace them.
Written in small sloping minuscule; one hand throughout
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
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
Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson. "The Walters 'Imperial' Menologion." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 51 (1993): 43-64.
D’Aiuto, Francesco. "Nuovi elementi per la datazione del Menologio Imperiale: i copisti degli esemplari miniati." Rendiconti [dell'] Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche, ser. IX, 8 (1997): 715-747.
Van den Ven, Paul. "Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque patriarcale du Caire." Le Muséon, n.s. v.15 (1914): 65-82, cat. no. 33.
Zakharova, Anna Vladimirovna. "The Miniatures of the Imperial Menologion." Nea Rhome: rivista di ricerche bizantinistiche 7 (2010): 131-153
Hero, A. Constantinides, "An Anonymous Narrative of the Martyrdom of the Anchorites of Mount Sinai (BHG 307D)," in Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot, edited by D. Sullivan, E. Fisher, and S. Papaioannou. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 411-420.
Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson. "El 'Menologio de Basilio II' y los 'Menologio imperiales.'" In El Menologio de Basilio II...libro de estudios con occasión de la edición facsímil, edited by Francesco D'Aiuto, 231-259. Madrid: Testimonio Compania Editorial, 2008.
Bagnoli, Martina, et al., eds. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, pp. 47-48, cat. no. 31.
Parpulov, Georgi. "A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.
Halkin, François. "Le ménologe impérial de Baltimore: textes grecs publiés et traduits." Subsidia hagiographica 69. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1985.
Ehrhard, Albert. "Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts." Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 52. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1939, pp. 392-397.
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.
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Second quarter of the 11th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Made in 1963; red leather over squared wooden boards; flat spine; parchment flyleaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Library of the Greek Patriarchate of Alexandria, Cairo, no. 32/33
Henry Walters, Paris, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Second quarter of the 11th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Library of the Greek Patriarchate of Alexandria, Cairo, no. 32/33
Henry Walters, Paris, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This manuscript contains the biographies of saints whom the church commemorates in the month of January. It was originally part of a set that covered the whole year. A companion volume, with texts for March, now survives in Moscow (State Historical Museum MS Synod. gr. 183). Each chapter in both manuscripts opens with a miniature depicting the death of the respective saint, or less often, another significant event from his or her life. Each text also ends with a seven-line prayer for the well-being of an unnamed emperor. The seven lines' initial letters invariably spell "MIC[H]AEL P.", most probably indicating that all the prayers were composed by "Michael the P(atriarch)". This must be Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 1043 to 1059. He must have commissioned the volumes for the purpose of being read out in the emperor's presence, probably in one of the numerous chapels of the great imperial palace. A single leaf from the Walters' volume is now kept in Berlin (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin MS graec. fol. 31). By the sixteenth century, a number of further folios were missing and paper leaves with text copied from a Metaphrastian Menologion were added to replace them.
Written in small sloping minuscule; one hand throughout
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
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
Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson. "The Walters 'Imperial' Menologion." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 51 (1993): 43-64.
D’Aiuto, Francesco. "Nuovi elementi per la datazione del Menologio Imperiale: i copisti degli esemplari miniati." Rendiconti [dell'] Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche, ser. IX, 8 (1997): 715-747.
Van den Ven, Paul. "Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque patriarcale du Caire." Le Muséon, n.s. v.15 (1914): 65-82, cat. no. 33.
Zakharova, Anna Vladimirovna. "The Miniatures of the Imperial Menologion." Nea Rhome: rivista di ricerche bizantinistiche 7 (2010): 131-153
Hero, A. Constantinides, "An Anonymous Narrative of the Martyrdom of the Anchorites of Mount Sinai (BHG 307D)," in Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot, edited by D. Sullivan, E. Fisher, and S. Papaioannou. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 411-420.
Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson. "El 'Menologio de Basilio II' y los 'Menologio imperiales.'" In El Menologio de Basilio II...libro de estudios con occasión de la edición facsímil, edited by Francesco D'Aiuto, 231-259. Madrid: Testimonio Compania Editorial, 2008.
Bagnoli, Martina, et al., eds. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, pp. 47-48, cat. no. 31.
Parpulov, Georgi. "A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.
Halkin, François. "Le ménologe impérial de Baltimore: textes grecs publiés et traduits." Subsidia hagiographica 69. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1985.
Ehrhard, Albert. "Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts." Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 52. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1939, pp. 392-397.
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.
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