Gospel Book, Walters Art Museum MS. W.528
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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.
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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.528, Gospel BookTitle: Gospel Book
Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201
http://www.thewalters.org/
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
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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 ofilluminated manuscripts produced during the second half ofthe twelfth century and possibly in the first decades afterthe Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its onesurviving miniature was painted over in the twentieth centurybut retains some of its original character. Each Gospel openswith 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+233Flyleaf 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: 1Ruled lines: 23Hardpoint ruling
Contents fols. 1r - 234v:Title: Gospel BookContents: Incomplete: fols. 2r-69v: Gospel of Matthew;fols. 70r-114v: Gospel of Mark, end lost, ends withMark 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 18:31Hand note: "Epsilon" style; written in one handthroughout
Decoration fol. 2r:Title: Title page of the Gospel of MatthewForm: Ornamented headpiece, zoomorphic initial
fol. 69v:Title: Decorated tailpieceForm: OrnamentComment: Twentieth-century tailpiece
fol. 70r:Title: Title page of the Gospel of MarkForm: Ornamented headpiece, illuminated initial
fol. 115v:Title: The Evangelist LukeForm: Full-page miniatureComment: St. Luke Fol. 115 certainly belonged to themanuscript from an early date, and the faded inscriptionwith the name of St. Luke above the frame is writtenin magenta ink and perhaps in the scribe’s hand. Theminiature, however, is almost entirely painted over.Its colors differ noticeably from those used in thefour headpieces and initials, which are original to thevolume.
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fol. 116r:Title: Title page of the Gospel of LukeForm: Ornamented headpiece, zoomorphic initial
fol. 188r:Title: Title page of the Gospel of JohnForm: Ornamented headpiece, zoomorphic initial
Binding The binding is not original.
Greek; perhaps seventeenth-century; tooled brown goatskinover grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs onexterior of upper and lower boards; many quires fortifiedwith paper at gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns;parchment flyleaf, probably added by Leon Gruel (foliatedas 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 NewTestament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 358–359
O. Demus, “Studien zur byzantinischen Buchmalereides 13. Jahrhunderts,” Jahrbuch der Österreichischenbyzantinischen Gesellschaft 9 (1960), 77–89, esp. 80–84
H. Buchthal, “Studies in Byzantine Illumination of theThirteenth Century,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 25(1983), 27–102, esp. 68–70
A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150–1250: The Studyof a Provincial Tradition (Chicago and London, 1987), 210
G. R. Parpulov, “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscriptsof the Walters Art Museum”, Journal of the Walters ArtMuseum 62 (2004), 71-189, esp. 104-106
Contributors Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, WilliamCopy editor: Joyal, StephanieConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
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Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Noel,William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2013
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
21201http://www.thewalters.org/
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