A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.528, Gospel Book Title: Gospel Book
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.528
Descriptive Title
Gospel Book
Text title
Gospel Book
Abstract
This Gospel Book is representative of a large group of illuminated manuscripts produced during the second half of the twelfth century and possibly in the first decades after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its one surviving miniature was painted over in the twentieth century but retains some of its original character. Each Gospel opens with an exuberantly ornamented headpiece.
Date
Early 13th century CE
Origin
Byzantine Empire
Form
Book
Genre
Scriptural
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Support material
Parchment Good quality, no significant defects
Extent
Foliation: i+233 Flyleaf included in foliation, and therefore runs through 234; foliation in pencil in upper right corners of rectos
Collation
Formula: 1(8), 2(6), 3(8,-3,4), 4-6(8), 7(10,-2,9), 8(8), 9(10,-3,9), 10-14(8), 15(6,-6), 16(2,-2), 17-30(8), 31(8,-8) Catchwords: None Signatures: Often trimmed, on first folio of each quire, middle of upper margin, separately for each Gospel Comments: Quires begin on fols. 2(1), 10(2), 16(3), 22(4), 30(5), 38(6), 46(7), 54(8), 62(9), 70(10), 78(11), 86(12), 94(13), 102(14), 110(15), 115(16), 116(17), 124(18), 132(19), 140(20), 148(21), 156(22), 164(23), 172(24), 180(25), 188(26), 196(27), 204(28), 212(29), 220(30), 228(31)
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Dimensions
16.5 cm wide by 23.0 cm high
Written surface
9.8 cm wide by 14.7 cm high
Layout
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 23 Hardpoint ruling
Contents
fols. 1r - 234v: Title: Gospel Book Contents: Incomplete: fols. 2r-69v: Gospel of Matthew; fols. 70r-114v: Gospel of Mark, end lost, ends with Mark 16:17; fols. 116r-187v: Gospel of Luke, end lost, ends with Luke 24:29; fols. 188r-234v: Gospel of John, end lost, ends with John 18:31 Hand note: "Epsilon" style; written in one hand throughout
Decoration
fol. 2r: Title: Title page of the Gospel of Matthew Form: Ornamented headpiece, zoomorphic initial fol. 69v: Title: Decorated tailpiece Form: Ornament Comment: Twentieth-century tailpiece fol. 70r: Title: Title page of the Gospel of Mark Form: Ornamented headpiece, illuminated initial fol. 115v: Title: The Evangelist Luke Form: Full-page miniature Comment: St. Luke Fol. 115 certainly belonged to the manuscript from an early date, and the faded inscription with the name of St. Luke above the frame is written in magenta ink and perhaps in the scribe’s hand. The miniature, however, is almost entirely painted over. Its colors differ noticeably from those used in the four headpieces and initials, which are original to the volume.
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fol. 116r: Title: Title page of the Gospel of Luke Form: Ornamented headpiece, zoomorphic initial fol. 188r: Title: Title page of the Gospel of John Form: Ornamented headpiece, zoomorphic initial Binding
The binding is not original. Greek; perhaps seventeenth-century; tooled brown goatskin over grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs on exterior of upper and lower boards; many quires fortified with paper at gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns; parchment flyleaf, probably added by Leon Gruel (foliated as fol. 1); traces of pins and fastening braids
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 358– 359 O. Demus, “Studien zur byzantinischen Buchmalerei des 13. Jahrhunderts,” Jahrbuch der Österreichischen byzantinischen Gesellschaft 9 (1960), 77–89, esp. 80–84 H. Buchthal, “Studies in Byzantine Illumination of the Thirteenth Century,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 25 (1983), 27–102, esp. 68–70 A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150–1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition (Chicago and London, 1987), 210 G. R. Parpulov, “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum”, Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004), 71-189, esp. 104-106
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R. Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
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Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
Released under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2013