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 liturgical text is a rare example of an early Russian manuscript, dating from the fourteenth century. It offers a fascinating case study in the history of manuscript collecting. Because of some eleventh-century dates written in the text, the manuscript was long believed to have been made in that century. Later it was argued that the work was in fact a nineteenth-century forgery by a Russian collector, Alexander Sulakadzev (Demkova 1979). A recent study (Afanas'eva 2009), however, has determined its origin definitively: the pages of this book were cut from a larger manuscript (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ms. O. п. Ι. 4) and bound together (out of order), probably by Sulakadzev. Sulakadzev is also likely to have added the notes that made the text appear to date to the eleventh century.
Uncial, written by a single hand; several notes in margins by later users, including some that refer to medieval history and include medieval dates, which were probably added by Sulakadzev
Cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
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
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. 817. no. 369.
Demkova, Natalia. "Древнерусские рукописи и старопeчатные kниги в нekotopыx собpaнияx" Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 34 (1979): pp. 388-405.
Parpulov, Georgi. "A Medieval Russian Manuscript at the Walters Art Museum (W.548)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum. Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 229-232, p. 230 fig. 1 (fol. 2r), p. 230 fig. 2 (fol. 13v).
Afanas'eva, Tatiana. "Cлужебник Рнб О. п. I. 4 и Рукoпись Walter Art Museum (W. 548) – единый дpевнеpусский кoдекс пеpвoй пoлoвины XIV в." 2009. http://www.drevnyaya.ru/vyp/2009_2/part5.pdf
Parpulov, Georgi. "Pre-1650 Cyrillic Manuscripts in U.S. Public Collections: A Catalogue." Palaeoslavica 18, no. 2 (2010): pp. 1-53, p. 7, no. 3.
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.
Russia
14th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Disbound bifolia housed in a nineteenth-century binding of red velvet over pasteboard with paper pastedowns
The primary language in this manuscript is Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic.
Created in Russia in the fourteenth century as part of a larger liturgical text
Alexander Sulakadzev, before 1816
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Russia
14th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic.
Created in Russia in the fourteenth century as part of a larger liturgical text
Alexander Sulakadzev, before 1816
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This liturgical text is a rare example of an early Russian manuscript, dating from the fourteenth century. It offers a fascinating case study in the history of manuscript collecting. Because of some eleventh-century dates written in the text, the manuscript was long believed to have been made in that century. Later it was argued that the work was in fact a nineteenth-century forgery by a Russian collector, Alexander Sulakadzev (Demkova 1979). A recent study (Afanas'eva 2009), however, has determined its origin definitively: the pages of this book were cut from a larger manuscript (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ms. O. п. Ι. 4) and bound together (out of order), probably by Sulakadzev. Sulakadzev is also likely to have added the notes that made the text appear to date to the eleventh century.
Uncial, written by a single hand; several notes in margins by later users, including some that refer to medieval history and include medieval dates, which were probably added by Sulakadzev
Cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
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
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. 817. no. 369.
Demkova, Natalia. "Древнерусские рукописи и старопeчатные kниги в нekotopыx собpaнияx" Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 34 (1979): pp. 388-405.
Parpulov, Georgi. "A Medieval Russian Manuscript at the Walters Art Museum (W.548)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum. Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 229-232, p. 230 fig. 1 (fol. 2r), p. 230 fig. 2 (fol. 13v).
Afanas'eva, Tatiana. "Cлужебник Рнб О. п. I. 4 и Рукoпись Walter Art Museum (W. 548) – единый дpевнеpусский кoдекс пеpвoй пoлoвины XIV в." 2009. http://www.drevnyaya.ru/vyp/2009_2/part5.pdf
Parpulov, Georgi. "Pre-1650 Cyrillic Manuscripts in U.S. Public Collections: A Catalogue." Palaeoslavica 18, no. 2 (2010): pp. 1-53, p. 7, no. 3.
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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