Gospels of Georg Alexief

17th century

10.5 cm 15 cm

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This manuscript was created in the seventeenth century, perhaps in Constantinople, based on the style of its illumination. The Gospel cycle that precedes the text contains slightly more miniatures than is traditional; especially notable are the tworepresenting the feeding of t...

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Illuminated by the painter Hohannes (Vardapet), Constantinople [Istanbul], 17th century [1]. Sergei Mikhailovich Bol’shakov, Moscow, by 1883, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Georg Alexeef, Moscow, 1883, by purchase [2]. Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] The location of this manuscript is unknown between the 17th century and 1883, and it may have been removed from Armenian territory at some point during the 19th-century Armenian Massacres. [2] The transcription and translation of the entry was made by Lana Sloutsky.
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