Silver Gospels

1488

18.3 cm 25 cm

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This Gospels manuscript was written in 937 of the Armenian era [1488 CE] in the province of Ekeeac' by the priest azar at the monastery of Surb Awgsend (St. Auxentius). Though the fifteenth-century manuscript was not a terribly costly production, it later came to be housed in...

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Created by Lazar, monastery of Surb Awgsend (St. Auxentius), Ekeghiatz province [near Yerevan]), 1488, for Eghia and family. Eliay, Armenia, before 1626, by purchase; church of Surb Astuacacin (Holy Theotokos), Armenia, 1626, by gift [1]. Pahatur, Armenia, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Priest Nerses, Armenia, 1712, [mode of acquisition unknown] [2]. Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, by 1920/1925, [mode of acquisition unknown] [inv. no. 5518]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] Undated ownership notices include: Xac'ik, who gave it to the church of Surb Parsam (St. Barsuma). Later in the possession of Nonafar T'?kc'i; and the Church of Surb Lusaworic (St. [Gregory] Illuminator) [2] The precise location of the manuscript is unknown between 1712 and 1925, and it may have been removed from Armenian territory at some point during the 19th-century Armenian Massacres, World War I, or the Armenian Genocide.
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