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 miniature once formed part of a psalter where it faced the beginning of Psalm 77 (78), which in Byzantine usage opened the second half of the Psalms. It is a cutting from a volume on Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 761. The latter manuscript can be dated precisely: the table on its fols. 3r-4v gives the dates of Easter for the years 6896-6919 (as calculated from the Creation of the world). The first of these corresponds to 1087-1088 CE and must be the year when the psalter was made.
Perlschrift, copied by a single hand
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
Millet, Gabriel. “Le psautier arménien illustré.” Revue des études arméniennes 9 (1929): 162-181.
Weitzmann, Kurt. “The Psalter Vatopedi 761: Its Place in the Aristocratic Psalter Recension.” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 10 (1947): 21-51 [reproduced in idem. Byzantine Liturgical Psalters and Gospels. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980, no. iii.]
Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 108-109, no. 23.
Spatharakis, Iohannis. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts: to the Year 1453. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1981, p. 35, no. 106-107, figs. 202-204.
Cutler, Anthony. The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium. Paris: Picard, 1984, pp. 26-29, no. 15, figs. 61-77.
Evans, Helen and William Wixom, eds. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, pp. 360-361, no. 241.
Parpulov, Georgi. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.
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 (?)
1087 to 1088 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Fol. 111 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 716
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Constantinople (?)
1087 to 1088 CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Fol. 111 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 716
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This miniature once formed part of a psalter where it faced the beginning of Psalm 77 (78), which in Byzantine usage opened the second half of the Psalms. It is a cutting from a volume on Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 761. The latter manuscript can be dated precisely: the table on its fols. 3r-4v gives the dates of Easter for the years 6896-6919 (as calculated from the Creation of the world). The first of these corresponds to 1087-1088 CE and must be the year when the psalter was made.
Perlschrift, copied by a single hand
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
Millet, Gabriel. “Le psautier arménien illustré.” Revue des études arméniennes 9 (1929): 162-181.
Weitzmann, Kurt. “The Psalter Vatopedi 761: Its Place in the Aristocratic Psalter Recension.” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 10 (1947): 21-51 [reproduced in idem. Byzantine Liturgical Psalters and Gospels. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980, no. iii.]
Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 108-109, no. 23.
Spatharakis, Iohannis. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts: to the Year 1453. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1981, p. 35, no. 106-107, figs. 202-204.
Cutler, Anthony. The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium. Paris: Picard, 1984, pp. 26-29, no. 15, figs. 61-77.
Evans, Helen and William Wixom, eds. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, pp. 360-361, no. 241.
Parpulov, Georgi. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.
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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