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.
Even though this volume contains the continuous text of the four Gospels, it is written in two columns, like a Gospel lectionary (e.g., W.520 and W.535). The leaves with Evangelist portraits are dyed red, in imitation of the very expensive purple-dyed parchment occasionally used in the fifth through ninth centuries. The style of the script, ornament, and images is a bit unusual, which makes it unclear whether the book was produced in the capital, Constantinople, or in some other part of the Byzantine Empire. A somewhat similar manuscript (Bucharest, Library of the Romanian Academy, Greek 1175) is now available in digitized form at www.e-corpus.org/fre/notices/141347-Tetraevangile.html. Unfortunately W.529 is too fragile to be fully digitized at this time, therefore only the binding has been imaged.
One hand throughout the manuscript
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
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
Papadopoulos-Kerameus, A. Hierosolymitikē vivliothēkē hētoi katalogos tōn en tais vivliothēkais tou hagiōtatou apostolikou te kai katholikou orthodoxou patriarchikou thronou tōn Hierosolymōn kai pasēs Palaistinēs apokeimenōn hellēnikōn kōdikōn, 4 vols. (St.-Petersburg, 1891-1915; repr. Brussels, 1963), 4:253–255, cat. 275
Binggeli, A., M. Cronier, and D. Lafleur, "À propos d’un évangéliaire byzantin (Aland l 793) récemment mis en vente à Paris." Scriptorium 66 (2012): pp. 89-108, at p. 102
Parpulov, G. R. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189, at pp. 106-109
Clark, K.W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 359-360, with pls. lix and lxxi
Spatharakis, I. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453 (Leiden, 1981), 80, with figs. 585–586, cat. 329
Vikan, G. ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts in American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann (Princeton, 1973), 148-149, cat. 40
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
Middle of the 11th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Early twentieth century: olive brown velvet over squared wooden boards; paper pastedowns and flyleaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, by 1522
Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, no. 520/275
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Byzantine Empire
Middle of the 11th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, by 1522
Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, no. 520/275
Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Even though this volume contains the continuous text of the four Gospels, it is written in two columns, like a Gospel lectionary (e.g., W.520 and W.535). The leaves with Evangelist portraits are dyed red, in imitation of the very expensive purple-dyed parchment occasionally used in the fifth through ninth centuries. The style of the script, ornament, and images is a bit unusual, which makes it unclear whether the book was produced in the capital, Constantinople, or in some other part of the Byzantine Empire. A somewhat similar manuscript (Bucharest, Library of the Romanian Academy, Greek 1175) is now available in digitized form at www.e-corpus.org/fre/notices/141347-Tetraevangile.html. Unfortunately W.529 is too fragile to be fully digitized at this time, therefore only the binding has been imaged.
One hand throughout the manuscript
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
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
Papadopoulos-Kerameus, A. Hierosolymitikē vivliothēkē hētoi katalogos tōn en tais vivliothēkais tou hagiōtatou apostolikou te kai katholikou orthodoxou patriarchikou thronou tōn Hierosolymōn kai pasēs Palaistinēs apokeimenōn hellēnikōn kōdikōn, 4 vols. (St.-Petersburg, 1891-1915; repr. Brussels, 1963), 4:253–255, cat. 275
Binggeli, A., M. Cronier, and D. Lafleur, "À propos d’un évangéliaire byzantin (Aland l 793) récemment mis en vente à Paris." Scriptorium 66 (2012): pp. 89-108, at p. 102
Parpulov, G. R. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189, at pp. 106-109
Clark, K.W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 359-360, with pls. lix and lxxi
Spatharakis, I. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453 (Leiden, 1981), 80, with figs. 585–586, cat. 329
Vikan, G. ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts in American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann (Princeton, 1973), 148-149, cat. 40
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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