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Walters Ms. W.530.C, The four Evangelists and two Apostles

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Shelf mark

W.530.C


Manuscript

The four Evangelists and two Apostles


Text title
Leaf from a psalter and New Testament

Abstract

This image originally faced the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles in a late eleventh-century psalter and New Testament in Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 762. It seems likely that in this manuscript, the scribe and illuminator were the same person.


Date

Late 11th century CE


Origin

Constantinople (?)


Form

Leaf


Genre

Scriptural


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453).


Support material

Parchment

High quality, exceptionally white and thin


Extent

Foliation: 1

Unfoliated; image originally on verso in parent manuscript


Collation

Formula: Cutting

Comments:


Dimensions

10.0 cm wide by 14.7 cm high


Written surface

6.0 cm wide by 11.5 cm high


Layout
  1. Columns: 1
  2. Ruled lines: 33
  3. Hardpoint

Contents:
fols. 1r - 1v:
  1. Title: Leaf from a psalter and New Testament
  2. Incipit: λέγει αὐτῷ...
  3. Contents: Originally fol. 211 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 762; John 21:16-25
  4. Hand note: Elegant sloping cursive; rubrics added by a later, fifteenth-century hand
  5. Decoration note: One full-page miniature

Decoration:

fol. 211r:

  1. W.530.C, fol. 211r
  2. Title: The four Evangelists and the two chief Apostles
  3. Form: Full-page miniature
  4. Text: Acts of the Apostles
  5. Label: The Evangelists and Apostles appear in the following order: Paul, Peter, John (above), Luke, Matthew, Mark (below).

Provenance

Fol. 211 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 762

Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest


Bibliography

Clark, Kenneth. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, p. 361.

Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 106-107, no. 22.

Parpulov, Georgi. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189.


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.

Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William

Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie

Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.