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Walters Ms. W.530.D-E, The Evangelists Matthew and Mark from a Gospel Book

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Shelf mark

W.530.D-E


Manuscript

The Evangelists Matthew and Mark from a Gospel Book


Text title
Leaves from a Gospel Book

Abstract

These two author portraits once preceded the Gospels of Matthew and Mark in a Gospel Book in Mount Athos, Monastery of Great Lavra MS A44. They are attributable to the leading book illuminator in Constantinople during the second quarter of the twelfth century. His real name is unknown, and he has been conventionally named the Kokkinobaphos Master.


Date

Second quarter of the 12th century CE


Origin

Constantinople (?)


Artist

Supplied name: Kokkinobaphos Master


Form

Leaves


Genre

Scriptural


Language:

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


Support material

Parchment

Good quality


Extent

Foliation: 1+1

Unfoliated


Collation

Formula: Cutting

Catchwords: None

Signatures: In lower margins, underneath miniatures

Comments:


Dimensions

15.3 cm wide by 22.6 cm high


Contents:
fols. W.530.Dr - W.530.Ev:
  1. Title: Leaves from a Gospel Book
  2. Contents: Originally fols. 1bis and 117bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A44
  3. Decoration note: Two full-page miniatures

Decoration:

fol. W.530.Dr:

  1. W.530.D-E, fol. W.530.Dr
  2. Title: St. Mark
  3. Form: Full-page miniature
  4. Text: Gospel of Mark

fol. W.530.Er:

  1. W.530.D-E, fol. W.530.Er
  2. Title: St. Matthew
  3. Form: Full-page miniature
  4. Text: Gospel of Matthew

Provenance

Fols. 1bis and 117bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A44

Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest


Bibliography

Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 138-139, no. 36.

Anderson, Jeffrey. “A Twelfth-Century Leaf From the Byzantine Courtly Circle in the Freer Gallery of Art (Freer 33.12).” Gesta 35, no. 2 (1996): 142-148, fig. 5, n. 9.

Evans, Helen and William Wixom, eds. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, pp. 94-95, no. 48.

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.