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Source Description
This Gospel Book is representative of a large group of illuminated manuscripts produced during the second half of the twelfth century and possibly in the first decades after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its one surviving miniature was painted over in the twentieth century but retains some of its original character. Each Gospel opens with an exuberantly ornamented headpiece.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
22059
label
Gospel Book
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
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22059
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contentType
object
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normalized
title
Gospel Book
description
This Gospel Book is representative of a large group of illuminated manuscripts produced during the second half of the twelfth century and possibly in the first decades after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its one surviving miniature was painted over in the twentieth century but retains some of its original character. Each Gospel opens with an exuberantly ornamented headpiece.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, MD, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
early 13th century
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
25
height
15.7
depth
8
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 9 13/16 x 6 3/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 15.7 x 8 cm)
Source extras
style
Byzantine
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med
ink and pigments on good quality parchment between tooled brown goatskin over grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs on exterior of upper and lower boards; many quires fortified with paper at gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns; parchment flyleaf, probably added by Leon Gruel (foliated as fol. 1); traces of pins and fastening braids
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6640
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none
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Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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