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 is one of twenty-six known manuscripts by the hand of Luke the Cypriot (fl. 1583-1625), an accomplished Greek calligrapher who worked after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453). He copied it in 1594 at his episcopal see of Buzǎu (in Wallachia, now Romania) and soon took it to Moscow, where it was richly illustrated with New Testament scenes by a team of anonymous Russian artists. The book contains passages taken from the four Gospels and arranged in the order in which they are read out loud in church during the course of the year (hence its name of Gospel lectionary, from the Latin "lectio," or reading). Short instructions in Slavonic accompany some of the miniatures, offering a glimpse into the painters' working process.
Characteristic archaizing calligraphy of Luke the Cypriot, as described in Maria-Despina Zoumbouli, Luc de Buzau et les centres de copie de manuscrits grecs en Modolvalachie (XVIe–XVIIe siècles) (Athens: Comité national grec des études du sud-est européen, 1995), pp. 68–72
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Athanasios. 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. St. Petersburg, 1897; reprinted Brussels: Culture et civilisation, 1963, vol. 3: 199-200, no. 4.
Gregory, Caspar René. Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Leipzig, 1909, vol. 1: 460, no. 1029.
Clark, Kenneth Willis. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 367–71, pl. 72.
Miner, Dorothy. “More about Medieval Pouncing.” In Homage to a Bookman: Essays on Manuscripts, Books, and Printing Written for Hans P. Kraus on his 60th Birthday. Edited by H. Lehmann-Haupt. Berlin: Mann, 1967, pp. 87–107, esp. 101–6.
Vikan, Gary. “Walters Lectionary W.535 (A.D. 1594) and the Revival of Deluxe Greek Manuscript Production after the Fall of Constantinople.” In The Byzantine Tradition after the Fall of Constantinople. Edited by J. J. Yiannis. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. 181–268.
Džurova, A. “Le synthèse slavo-byzantine dans les manuscrits grecs dits de “grande luxe,” créés en Valachie et en Moldavie aux XVIe–XVIIe siècles.” In The Greek Script in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Athens: Institute for Byzantine Research, 2000, pp. 499–521.
Parpulov, Georgi R. “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189, esp. 132-140.
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.
Buzǎu, Romania (text); Moscow, Russia (miniatures)
Text dated June 4, 1594; miniatures added by 1596
book
Original Binding
Dates to the end of the sixteenth century; pasted down by Liz Bentzel in May 1935; patterned red silk over squared wooden boards; spine raised with six bands; traces of now lost metal attachments and clasps; pastedowns of yellow silk
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453). The secondary language of this manuscript is Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic.
Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, ca. 1598, by gift
Léon Gruel, Paris, by purchase
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Buzǎu, Romania (text); Moscow, Russia (miniatures)
Text dated June 4, 1594; miniatures added by 1596
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453). The secondary language of this manuscript is Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic.
Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, ca. 1598, by gift
Léon Gruel, Paris, by purchase
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is one of twenty-six known manuscripts by the hand of Luke the Cypriot (fl. 1583-1625), an accomplished Greek calligrapher who worked after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453). He copied it in 1594 at his episcopal see of Buzǎu (in Wallachia, now Romania) and soon took it to Moscow, where it was richly illustrated with New Testament scenes by a team of anonymous Russian artists. The book contains passages taken from the four Gospels and arranged in the order in which they are read out loud in church during the course of the year (hence its name of Gospel lectionary, from the Latin "lectio," or reading). Short instructions in Slavonic accompany some of the miniatures, offering a glimpse into the painters' working process.
Characteristic archaizing calligraphy of Luke the Cypriot, as described in Maria-Despina Zoumbouli, Luc de Buzau et les centres de copie de manuscrits grecs en Modolvalachie (XVIe–XVIIe siècles) (Athens: Comité national grec des études du sud-est européen, 1995), pp. 68–72
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Athanasios. 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. St. Petersburg, 1897; reprinted Brussels: Culture et civilisation, 1963, vol. 3: 199-200, no. 4.
Gregory, Caspar René. Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Leipzig, 1909, vol. 1: 460, no. 1029.
Clark, Kenneth Willis. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 367–71, pl. 72.
Miner, Dorothy. “More about Medieval Pouncing.” In Homage to a Bookman: Essays on Manuscripts, Books, and Printing Written for Hans P. Kraus on his 60th Birthday. Edited by H. Lehmann-Haupt. Berlin: Mann, 1967, pp. 87–107, esp. 101–6.
Vikan, Gary. “Walters Lectionary W.535 (A.D. 1594) and the Revival of Deluxe Greek Manuscript Production after the Fall of Constantinople.” In The Byzantine Tradition after the Fall of Constantinople. Edited by J. J. Yiannis. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. 181–268.
Džurova, A. “Le synthèse slavo-byzantine dans les manuscrits grecs dits de “grande luxe,” créés en Valachie et en Moldavie aux XVIe–XVIIe siècles.” In The Greek Script in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Athens: Institute for Byzantine Research, 2000, pp. 499–521.
Parpulov, Georgi R. “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189, esp. 132-140.
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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