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 small, densely written volume of the New Testament was evidently made for personal reading. It represents high-level manuscript production in the first decades of the late Byzantine period. ca. 1300. By 1628, it is known to have been in the Chilandari Monastery, or one of its dependencies, on Mount Athos.
One hand throughout
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Clark, K.W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 353–357, with pl. lvii.
Berkowitz, D.S. In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 1968, p. 23, cat. no. 9.
The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1: Catalogue, ed. K. Hoffman. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, pp. 296-297, cat. no. 290.
Buchthal, H., and H. Belting, Patronage in Thirteenth-Century Constantinople: An Atelier of Late Byzantine Book Illumination and Calligraphy. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 16. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1978, pp. 109–110, with pls. 5–7.
Parpulov, G.R. “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189, pp. 96-99, p. 152 (fols. 251v-252r, fol. 341).
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.
Probably Constantinople (modern Istanbul)
Ca. 1300 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Early twentieth-century binding by Léon Gruel, Paris; brown morocco with gilt silver studs along the edges, small gilt silver corner bosses of cherubim, blind-stamped symbols of the Evangelists in neo-Gothic style on both covers, two gilt silver clasps (lower one now missing), spine with five raised bands and the name “Gruel” stamped in gold at the bottom, two paper flyleaves on each side (watermarked with a Britannia inside an oval)
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
In the Chilandari Monastery
Léon Gruel, Paris
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Probably Constantinople (modern Istanbul)
Ca. 1300 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
In the Chilandari Monastery
Léon Gruel, Paris
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This small, densely written volume of the New Testament was evidently made for personal reading. It represents high-level manuscript production in the first decades of the late Byzantine period. ca. 1300. By 1628, it is known to have been in the Chilandari Monastery, or one of its dependencies, on Mount Athos.
One hand throughout
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Clark, K.W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 353–357, with pl. lvii.
Berkowitz, D.S. In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 1968, p. 23, cat. no. 9.
The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1: Catalogue, ed. K. Hoffman. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, pp. 296-297, cat. no. 290.
Buchthal, H., and H. Belting, Patronage in Thirteenth-Century Constantinople: An Atelier of Late Byzantine Book Illumination and Calligraphy. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 16. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1978, pp. 109–110, with pls. 5–7.
Parpulov, G.R. “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189, pp. 96-99, p. 152 (fols. 251v-252r, fol. 341).
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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