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 manuscript was created in the seventeenth century, perhaps in Constantinople, based on the style of its illumination. The Gospel cycle that precedes the text contains slightly more miniatures than is traditional; especially notable are the two—representing the feeding of the five thousand and the cleansing of the Temple—which come out of sequence at the end of the cycle. The miniatures in this manuscript, like many at this time, reflect the mingling of traditional Cilician and Western influences. Though the manuscript does not include a colophon, the signature of the painter, Hohannes, is visible on the bottom of the canon tables on fols. 29v-30r. This manuscript appears to have been well traveled: at some point, very small inscriptions in Greek were added to most of the miniatures; in 1883, it belonged to Georg Alexief of Moscow, according to a note in Russian on fol. 1r.
artist: Hohannes
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: 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.
De Ricci, S. and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 762, no. 30.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: The Trustees, 1973, pp. 69-75, no. IX, pl. G, figs. 389-426.
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 323-326.
Mathews, Thomas F., and Roger S. Wieck, eds. Treasures in Heaven: Armenian illuminated manuscripts. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, pp. 154-155, no. 13, fig. 76.
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 (?)
17th century CE
book
Original Binding
Dark brown leather over wooden boards, with a flap. The upper cover is stamped in gold with three-petal floral tools arranged in a lozenge around the center and placed in the corners of the main panel, which is also decorated by a rather random placement of small rosettes and seed-shaped tools. A border of interlace tools in blinds frame the cover. The lower corner has an even more random decoration of the same tools, original in gold but now much worn, and a frame of small quire interlace tools in blind. The flap is blind tooled with the seeds and rosettes, and diagonal lines. The spine is raised at the head and tail (repaired). The headbands are embroidered in tan and olive silk. There are traces of former attachments on the cover. The cover boards are lined with blue silk damask.
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian. The secondary languages of this manuscript are Greek, Modern (1453-), Russian.
Georg Alexief of Moscow, March 30, 1883
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Constantinople (?)
17th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian. The secondary languages of this manuscript are Greek, Modern (1453-), Russian.
Georg Alexief of Moscow, March 30, 1883
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This manuscript was created in the seventeenth century, perhaps in Constantinople, based on the style of its illumination. The Gospel cycle that precedes the text contains slightly more miniatures than is traditional; especially notable are the two—representing the feeding of the five thousand and the cleansing of the Temple—which come out of sequence at the end of the cycle. The miniatures in this manuscript, like many at this time, reflect the mingling of traditional Cilician and Western influences. Though the manuscript does not include a colophon, the signature of the painter, Hohannes, is visible on the bottom of the canon tables on fols. 29v-30r. This manuscript appears to have been well traveled: at some point, very small inscriptions in Greek were added to most of the miniatures; in 1883, it belonged to Georg Alexief of Moscow, according to a note in Russian on fol. 1r.
artist: Hohannes
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: 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.
De Ricci, S. and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 762, no. 30.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: The Trustees, 1973, pp. 69-75, no. IX, pl. G, figs. 389-426.
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 323-326.
Mathews, Thomas F., and Roger S. Wieck, eds. Treasures in Heaven: Armenian illuminated manuscripts. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, pp. 154-155, no. 13, fig. 76.
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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