Leaf from Gospels: the Virgin and Child

late 13th century

11 cm 16.8 cm

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This volume is primarily remarkable for its excellently preserved early (but not original) binding, as well as the peculiar style of its miniatures. The manuscript opens with an unusual, icon-like prefatory image of the Virgin and Child, possibly added at an early stage for us...

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Sophia Negroponte, Constantinople [1]. Purchased by the Russian Skete of St. Andrew, Karies, Mt. Athos, 1900 [2]. Purchased by Thomas Whittemore, Paris, after 1902. Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Seen by A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus in 1885[2] Cod. 754 in its library; seen there by C. R. Gregory on March 26, 1902
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