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 is representative of a large group of illuminated manuscripts produced during the second half of the twelfth century and possibly in the first decades after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its one surviving miniature was painted over in the twentieth century but retains some of its original character. Each Gospel opens with an exuberantly ornamented headpiece.
"Epsilon" style; written in one hand throughout
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), 358–359
O. Demus, “Studien zur byzantinischen Buchmalerei des 13. Jahrhunderts,” Jahrbuch der Österreichischen byzantinischen Gesellschaft 9 (1960), 77–89, esp. 80–84
H. Buchthal, “Studies in Byzantine Illumination of the Thirteenth Century,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 25 (1983), 27–102, esp. 68–70
A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150–1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition (Chicago and London, 1987), 210
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. 104-106
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
Early 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Greek; perhaps seventeenth-century; tooled brown goatskin over grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs on exterior of upper and lower boards; many quires fortified with paper at gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns; parchment flyleaf, probably added by Leon Gruel (foliated as fol. 1); traces of pins and fastening braids
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Byzantine Empire
Early 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Gospel Book is representative of a large group of illuminated manuscripts produced during the second half of the twelfth century and possibly in the first decades after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its one surviving miniature was painted over in the twentieth century but retains some of its original character. Each Gospel opens with an exuberantly ornamented headpiece.
"Epsilon" style; written in one hand throughout
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), 358–359
O. Demus, “Studien zur byzantinischen Buchmalerei des 13. Jahrhunderts,” Jahrbuch der Österreichischen byzantinischen Gesellschaft 9 (1960), 77–89, esp. 80–84
H. Buchthal, “Studies in Byzantine Illumination of the Thirteenth Century,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 25 (1983), 27–102, esp. 68–70
A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150–1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition (Chicago and London, 1987), 210
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. 104-106
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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