Gospel Lectionary

2nd half 10th century (Byzantine)

23 cm 30 cm

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This is an example of a Gospel Lectionary written in the archaic, majuscule form of Greek letters. Liturgical books were inherently conservative and therefore commonly retained such antiquated writing. The scribe, a certain monk Theodore, has recorded his name in a verse at th...

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Church of St. Nicholas Gropnicki or the Virgin Gropnicka in Ohrid, Macedonia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Library of the Metropolitan Church of St. Clement, Ohrid, no. 49 [seen there by F. I. Uspenskii in 1898, church no longer extant]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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