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Source Description
This miniature once formed part of a psalter where it faced the beginning of Psalm 77 (78), which in Byzantine usage opened the second half of the Psalms. It is a cutting from a volume on Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 761. The latter manuscript can be dated precisely: the table on its fols. 3r-4v gives the dates of Easter for the years 6896-6919 (as calculated from the Creation of the world). The first of these corresponds to 1087-1088 CE and must be the year when the psalter was made.
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Document identity
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8341
label
Moses Receiving the Law
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object
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Source metadata
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8341
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object
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normalized
title
Moses Receiving the Law
description
This miniature once formed part of a psalter where it faced the beginning of Psalm 77 (78), which in Byzantine usage opened the second half of the Psalms. It is a cutting from a volume on Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 761. The latter manuscript can be dated precisely: the table on its fols. 3r-4v gives the dates of Easter for the years 6896-6919 (as calculated from the Creation of the world). The first of these corresponds to 1087-1088 CE and must be the year when the psalter was made.
provenance
[Folio 111 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 716 (formerly MS 609)]; Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1087-88
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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Manuscripts & Rare Books
illuminated manuscripts
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2
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2
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
11.7
height
9.1
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 4 5/8 x W: 3 9/16 in. (11.7 x 9.1 cm)
Source extras
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Byzantine; Christian
style
Byzantine
med
ink and pigments on high quality parchment
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6640
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358
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2289
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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b22989356d96eb87
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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47da948202d54f32
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no
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no