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 volume is primarily remarkable for its excellently preserved early (but not original) binding, as well as the peculiar style of its miniatures. The manuscript opens with an unusual, icon-like prefatory image of the Virgin and Child, possibly added at an early stage for use in private devotion, and is followed by Evangelist portraits facing ornate headpieces. These illuminations are important examples of non-Constantinopolitan Byzantine art.
One hand throughout the manuscript; on fols. 257r–259r the script changes, as the characters become smaller and abbreviations numerous, but the hand is most likely still the same
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
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. 355–357, with pls. lvii and lxxi
Spatharakis, I. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453. Leiden: Brill, 1981, pp. 81–82, cat. 335, with figs. 595–596
Parpulov, G.R. “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 99-102, p. 153 (fols. 1v, 74v), p. 154 (covers, including x-ray photographs, and front edge)
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
Late 13th century CE (with one 14th-century illumination)
book
Non-original Binding
Perhaps sixteenth century; tooled dark red goatskin over squared wooden boards; ornate foliate designs and roundels containing interlace inscribed on the head and fore-edge
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Sophia Negroponte, Constantinople
Russian Skete of St. Andrew, Karies, Mt. Athos, 1900, by purchase
Thomas Whittemore, Paris, by purchase, after 1902
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Byzantine Empire
Late 13th century CE (with one 14th-century illumination)
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Sophia Negroponte, Constantinople
Russian Skete of St. Andrew, Karies, Mt. Athos, 1900, by purchase
Thomas Whittemore, Paris, by purchase, after 1902
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This volume is primarily remarkable for its excellently preserved early (but not original) binding, as well as the peculiar style of its miniatures. The manuscript opens with an unusual, icon-like prefatory image of the Virgin and Child, possibly added at an early stage for use in private devotion, and is followed by Evangelist portraits facing ornate headpieces. These illuminations are important examples of non-Constantinopolitan Byzantine art.
One hand throughout the manuscript; on fols. 257r–259r the script changes, as the characters become smaller and abbreviations numerous, but the hand is most likely still the same
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
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. 355–357, with pls. lvii and lxxi
Spatharakis, I. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453. Leiden: Brill, 1981, pp. 81–82, cat. 335, with figs. 595–596
Parpulov, G.R. “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 99-102, p. 153 (fols. 1v, 74v), p. 154 (covers, including x-ray photographs, and front edge)
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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