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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This fragmentary leaf once belonged to an Ethiopian Gospel book from the Lake Tana region. Dating from the late fourteenth century, the leaf contains two images from a prefatory cycle depicting the Passion of Christ, which would have preceded the Gospels. On the recto, a shrouded Christ is carried to the tomb by Joseph and Nicodemus. The verso depicts the resurrected Christ, accompanied by the Archangel Michael, appearing before Mary Magdalene, St. John, and St. Peter. Intact Gospel books with comparable image cycles, such as that at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998.66), and the J. Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M828, demonstrate that these two images likely fell between depictions of the Crucifixion and the Ascension.
Principal cataloger: Getatchew Haile, .
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Isaac, Ephraim
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Holbert, Kelly, ed. Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 2001, pp. 98-99, cat. no. 11.
Mann, C. Griffith. "A Devotional Ethiopian Icon Acquired in Honor of the Director (36.16)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 191-193, p. 192, fig. 2.
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.
Lake Tana, Ethiopia
Late 14th century CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Geez.
Originally created as part of a Gospel book's prefatory cycle, Lake Tana, Ethiopia, late fourteenth century
Joseph and Margaret Knopfelmacher collection, New York, before 1996
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Knopfelmacher, 1996
Lake Tana, Ethiopia
Late 14th century CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Geez.
Originally created as part of a Gospel book's prefatory cycle, Lake Tana, Ethiopia, late fourteenth century
Joseph and Margaret Knopfelmacher collection, New York, before 1996
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Knopfelmacher, 1996
This fragmentary leaf once belonged to an Ethiopian Gospel book from the Lake Tana region. Dating from the late fourteenth century, the leaf contains two images from a prefatory cycle depicting the Passion of Christ, which would have preceded the Gospels. On the recto, a shrouded Christ is carried to the tomb by Joseph and Nicodemus. The verso depicts the resurrected Christ, accompanied by the Archangel Michael, appearing before Mary Magdalene, St. John, and St. Peter. Intact Gospel books with comparable image cycles, such as that at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998.66), and the J. Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M828, demonstrate that these two images likely fell between depictions of the Crucifixion and the Ascension.
Principal cataloger: Getatchew Haile, .
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Isaac, Ephraim
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Holbert, Kelly, ed. Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 2001, pp. 98-99, cat. no. 11.
Mann, C. Griffith. "A Devotional Ethiopian Icon Acquired in Honor of the Director (36.16)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 191-193, p. 192, fig. 2.
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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