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.
These two author portraits once preceded the Gospels of Matthew and Mark in a Gospel Book in Mount Athos, Monastery of Great Lavra MS A44. They are attributable to the leading book illuminator in Constantinople during the second quarter of the twelfth century. His real name is unknown, and he has been conventionally named the Kokkinobaphos Master.
artist: Kokkinobaphos Master
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
Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 138-139, no. 36.
Anderson, Jeffrey. “A Twelfth-Century Leaf From the Byzantine Courtly Circle in the Freer Gallery of Art (Freer 33.12).” Gesta 35, no. 2 (1996): 142-148, fig. 5, n. 9.
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. 94-95, no. 48.
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 (?)
Second quarter of the 12th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Fols. 1bis and 117bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A44
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Constantinople (?)
Second quarter of the 12th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Fols. 1bis and 117bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A44
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
These two author portraits once preceded the Gospels of Matthew and Mark in a Gospel Book in Mount Athos, Monastery of Great Lavra MS A44. They are attributable to the leading book illuminator in Constantinople during the second quarter of the twelfth century. His real name is unknown, and he has been conventionally named the Kokkinobaphos Master.
artist: Kokkinobaphos Master
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
Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 138-139, no. 36.
Anderson, Jeffrey. “A Twelfth-Century Leaf From the Byzantine Courtly Circle in the Freer Gallery of Art (Freer 33.12).” Gesta 35, no. 2 (1996): 142-148, fig. 5, n. 9.
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. 94-95, no. 48.
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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