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, with richly painted Evangelist portraits, canon tables, and marginal illuminations, was made in Armenia in the early seventeenth century. An extensive colophon reveals that it was commissioned by a woman named Napat' as a memorial for herself and her family, and the book was consequently given by her to the Church of St. Sargis in Amida. The illuminator of the manuscript, Hovannes, was one of the most prolific among the artists and scribes at the Amida scriptorium. On the present codex he worked with the scribe Melk'on. Known collaborators, Hovannes and Melk'on executed a number of codices together.
artist: Hovannes, son of Chanipek and Et'ar
Principal cataloger: Der Nersessian, Sirarpie
Principal cataloger: Landau, Amy
Principal cataloger: van Lint, Theo M
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Mathews, Thomas F. and Roger S. Wieck, eds. Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, pp. 151-152, no. 10, figs. 72 (fol. 183r), 98 (182v).
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 310-318.
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.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 761, no. 26.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1973, pp. 56-62, no. VII, pls. 174-199.
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.
Amida, Armenia
Early 17th century CE
book
Original Binding
Blind-tooled with stepped cross on front cover and rectangle on back; holes on both boards from from missing metal cross and corner pieces; inner boards lined with red silk
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian.
Illuminated by Hovannes, son of Chanipek and Et'ar, and copied by his pupil Melk'on, in early seventeenth century for woman named Napat' as memorial for herself, her parents Sargis and Telshat, and her deceased sons Melk'on, Khatchatur, and Gharip; Napat' gave it to the Church of St. Sargis in Amida; see colophon
Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Amida, Armenia
Early 17th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian.
Illuminated by Hovannes, son of Chanipek and Et'ar, and copied by his pupil Melk'on, in early seventeenth century for woman named Napat' as memorial for herself, her parents Sargis and Telshat, and her deceased sons Melk'on, Khatchatur, and Gharip; Napat' gave it to the Church of St. Sargis in Amida; see colophon
Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This Gospel Book, with richly painted Evangelist portraits, canon tables, and marginal illuminations, was made in Armenia in the early seventeenth century. An extensive colophon reveals that it was commissioned by a woman named Napat' as a memorial for herself and her family, and the book was consequently given by her to the Church of St. Sargis in Amida. The illuminator of the manuscript, Hovannes, was one of the most prolific among the artists and scribes at the Amida scriptorium. On the present codex he worked with the scribe Melk'on. Known collaborators, Hovannes and Melk'on executed a number of codices together.
artist: Hovannes, son of Chanipek and Et'ar
Principal cataloger: Der Nersessian, Sirarpie
Principal cataloger: Landau, Amy
Principal cataloger: van Lint, Theo M
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Noel, William
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Pizzinato, Riccardo
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Mathews, Thomas F. and Roger S. Wieck, eds. Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, pp. 151-152, no. 10, figs. 72 (fol. 183r), 98 (182v).
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 310-318.
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.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 761, no. 26.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1973, pp. 56-62, no. VII, pls. 174-199.
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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