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 Gospel book was likely created in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, in the eleventh century. The manuscript is remarkable on account of its exceptionally small size, as well as the high quality of its script and miniatures. Its extensive image cycle includes six full-page miniatures, four half-page miniatures, four historiated initials, and marginalia.
One hand throughout
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Izer, Emily
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Clark, Kenneth. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 348–350, pl. liv.
Cutler, Anthony. “The Dumbarton Oaks Psalter and New Testament: The Iconography of the Moscow Leaf.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 37 (1983): 35-45; reproduced in idem. Imagery and Ideology in Byzantine Art. Hampshire: Variorum, 1992, no. viii.
Parpulov, Georgi. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.
Weyl Carr, Annemarie. “Diminutive Byzantine Manuscripts.” Codices Manuscripti 6 (1980): 130-161, figs. 15-16; reproduced in eadem. Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. Hampshire: Variorum, 2005, no. v.
Weyl Carr, Annemarie. "Gospel Frontispieces from the Comnenian Period." Gesta 21 (1982): 3-20; reproduced in eadem. Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. Hampshire: Variorum, 2005, no. iii.
Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda. "Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts in the Collections of the USA: New Findings and Identifications." In Atsalos, B. and N. Tsironis, eds. Actes du VIe Colloque International de Paléographie Grecque (Drama 21-27 Sept. 2003). Vol. 2. Athens: 2008, pp. 809-814.
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)
Late 11th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Early twentieth-century; green velvet over wooden boards, bronze clasp; modern parchment flyleaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Likely created in Constantinople, ca. 1080-1100
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Late 11th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Likely created in Constantinople, ca. 1080-1100
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Gospel book was likely created in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, in the eleventh century. The manuscript is remarkable on account of its exceptionally small size, as well as the high quality of its script and miniatures. Its extensive image cycle includes six full-page miniatures, four half-page miniatures, four historiated initials, and marginalia.
One hand throughout
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Izer, Emily
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Clark, Kenneth. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 348–350, pl. liv.
Cutler, Anthony. “The Dumbarton Oaks Psalter and New Testament: The Iconography of the Moscow Leaf.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 37 (1983): 35-45; reproduced in idem. Imagery and Ideology in Byzantine Art. Hampshire: Variorum, 1992, no. viii.
Parpulov, Georgi. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.
Weyl Carr, Annemarie. “Diminutive Byzantine Manuscripts.” Codices Manuscripti 6 (1980): 130-161, figs. 15-16; reproduced in eadem. Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. Hampshire: Variorum, 2005, no. v.
Weyl Carr, Annemarie. "Gospel Frontispieces from the Comnenian Period." Gesta 21 (1982): 3-20; reproduced in eadem. Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. Hampshire: Variorum, 2005, no. iii.
Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda. "Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts in the Collections of the USA: New Findings and Identifications." In Atsalos, B. and N. Tsironis, eds. Actes du VIe Colloque International de Paléographie Grecque (Drama 21-27 Sept. 2003). Vol. 2. Athens: 2008, pp. 809-814.
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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