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Medium-weight parchment
This is not the original binding that this manuscript received after it had been copied, but it is of early date (probably from the sixteenth century) and is remarkably well preserved.
The inscription reads "Mother of God" in Greek.
In style, the image is similar to an icon at the Benaki Museum in Athens (inv. 41420) and may, like it, date to the fourteenth century.
This is a very unusual subject for a pictorial frontispiece to a Gospel Book, and must have served as a devotional image.
The inscription reads "St. Matthew" in Greek.
As usual, the Evangelist is shown in the act of writing his Gospel.
The stocky proportions of the figure and muted colors are typical of late thirteenth-century Byzantine art.
The inscription reads "St. Mark" in Greek.
The inscription reads "St. John the Theologian" in Greek.
Perhaps sixteenth century; tooled dark red goatskin over squared wooden boards; ornate foliate designs and roundels containing interlace inscribed on the head and fore-edge