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 was produced at the end of the katholicate of Grigor IV (Tłay) at the monastery of Pawłoskan in Cilicia. The principal colophon on fols. 311r-313v dates the manuscript to 1193 CE (642 AE), and the patron, Bishop Karapet, a resident at the court of Grigor at Hromkla, is recorded in the dedication on fol. 12v. The colophon also records the siege of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187, the Third Crusade (1189-1192) and Frederick Barbarossa's attempt to reclaim Palestine, and Barbarossa's death in 1190. The canon tables and the Eusebian letter within quatrefoil frames are decorated with architectural elements, geometric designs, floral motifs, and birds. The codex is further illuminated with historiated and inhabited initials forming the incipits of the Gospels and marginal decoration.
Principal cataloger: Der Nersessian, Sirarpie
Principal cataloger: Landau, Amy
Principal cataloger: van Lint, Theo M
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
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
Thanks are expressed to Professor Bernard Coulie (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) for kindly making available his bibliography on the Armenian manuscripts kept in the Walters Art Museum.
Alishan, Léonce M. Sissouan ou l'Arméno-Cilicie: Description géographique et historique. Trans. Édouard Sirounian and Jacques Issaverdentz. Venice: S. Lazare, 1899; p. 156. Armenian edition, Venice: S. Lazaro, 1885, pp. 147, 445.
Zarbhanalian, G. Catalogue des anciennes traductions arméniennes: Siècles IV-XIII [in Armenian with French title]. Venice, 1889, p. 160.
Alishan, Léonce M. Hayapatum [in Armenian]. Venice, 1901, pp. 409-410.
Shahaziz, Z. Historical Pictures [in Armenian]. Tiflis, 1903, p. 130.
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. A Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1935, p. 761, cat. no. 25.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenia and the Byzantine Empire: A Study of Armenian Art and Civilization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947, p. 122, plate XXIV.2.
Downey, Glanville. "The Art of New Rome at Baltimore." Archaeology 1 (March 1948): pp. 21-29, p. 24.
Hovsep'ian, G. Colophons of Manuscripts [in Armenian]. Antilias: 1951, cols. 565-570, 817-818.
Hoffman, Konrad. The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1970, pp. 295, cat. no. 288 (mislabeled Ms. 528).
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1973, pp. 6-9, 85-86, plates 12-29.
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 267-273.
Evans, Helen. "Manuscript Illumination at the Armenian Patriarchate in Hromkla and the West." Ph. D. diss. New York University, 1990, pp. 156-157
Mathews, Thomas F., and Roger Wieck, eds. Treasures of Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. New York and Princeton: The Pierpont Morgan Library and Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 40, fig. 18 (fol. 246), 70, 71, 149, cat. no. 7 (Helen Evans)
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.
Hromkla, Armenia
1193 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled with linear designs. Triangular metal plaques, incised with floral motifs, are nailed at the corners of the upper cover. Four quaterfoil plaques have been nailed in a random arrangement on this cover, one being of unornamented silver. Two, of a base metal, each display a small relief of the crucified Christ. One is incised with an inscription in Armenian: "The cross is a memorial of Nazlu Kha[t'un] and her son Gevork', and she gave this healing holy Gospels for the enjoyment of Ter Hohannes, in the year 1770."
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian.
Made at the Monastery of Pawłoskan for Bishop Karapet in 1193
Katholikos Ōhannēs
In the possession of Gēvork', son of Nazluxan, in 1770
Undated inscription on fol. 314r states that the manuscript was given to the Monastery of T'umay Aṙak'eal
On the evidence of catalogues from 1889
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired between 1903 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Hromkla, Armenia
1193 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian.
Made at the Monastery of Pawłoskan for Bishop Karapet in 1193
Katholikos Ōhannēs
In the possession of Gēvork', son of Nazluxan, in 1770
Undated inscription on fol. 314r states that the manuscript was given to the Monastery of T'umay Aṙak'eal
On the evidence of catalogues from 1889
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired between 1903 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Gospel Book was produced at the end of the katholicate of Grigor IV (Tłay) at the monastery of Pawłoskan in Cilicia. The principal colophon on fols. 311r-313v dates the manuscript to 1193 CE (642 AE), and the patron, Bishop Karapet, a resident at the court of Grigor at Hromkla, is recorded in the dedication on fol. 12v. The colophon also records the siege of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187, the Third Crusade (1189-1192) and Frederick Barbarossa's attempt to reclaim Palestine, and Barbarossa's death in 1190. The canon tables and the Eusebian letter within quatrefoil frames are decorated with architectural elements, geometric designs, floral motifs, and birds. The codex is further illuminated with historiated and inhabited initials forming the incipits of the Gospels and marginal decoration.
Principal cataloger: Der Nersessian, Sirarpie
Principal cataloger: Landau, Amy
Principal cataloger: van Lint, Theo M
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
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
Thanks are expressed to Professor Bernard Coulie (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) for kindly making available his bibliography on the Armenian manuscripts kept in the Walters Art Museum.
Alishan, Léonce M. Sissouan ou l'Arméno-Cilicie: Description géographique et historique. Trans. Édouard Sirounian and Jacques Issaverdentz. Venice: S. Lazare, 1899; p. 156. Armenian edition, Venice: S. Lazaro, 1885, pp. 147, 445.
Zarbhanalian, G. Catalogue des anciennes traductions arméniennes: Siècles IV-XIII [in Armenian with French title]. Venice, 1889, p. 160.
Alishan, Léonce M. Hayapatum [in Armenian]. Venice, 1901, pp. 409-410.
Shahaziz, Z. Historical Pictures [in Armenian]. Tiflis, 1903, p. 130.
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. A Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1935, p. 761, cat. no. 25.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenia and the Byzantine Empire: A Study of Armenian Art and Civilization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947, p. 122, plate XXIV.2.
Downey, Glanville. "The Art of New Rome at Baltimore." Archaeology 1 (March 1948): pp. 21-29, p. 24.
Hovsep'ian, G. Colophons of Manuscripts [in Armenian]. Antilias: 1951, cols. 565-570, 817-818.
Hoffman, Konrad. The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1970, pp. 295, cat. no. 288 (mislabeled Ms. 528).
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1973, pp. 6-9, 85-86, plates 12-29.
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 267-273.
Evans, Helen. "Manuscript Illumination at the Armenian Patriarchate in Hromkla and the West." Ph. D. diss. New York University, 1990, pp. 156-157
Mathews, Thomas F., and Roger Wieck, eds. Treasures of Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. New York and Princeton: The Pierpont Morgan Library and Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 40, fig. 18 (fol. 246), 70, 71, 149, cat. no. 7 (Helen Evans)
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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