Leaf from Ethiopian Gospels: the Crucifixion, with Christ Represented as Lamb on Top of the Cross

early 14th century (Early Solomonic)

16.5 cm 26.6 cm

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This Gospel book belongs to a group of manuscripts produced at a monastery in northern Ethiopia during the fourteenth century. All the surviving books in this group contain frontispieces featuring scenes of the Crucifixion, the Holy Women at the Tomb, and the Ascension. The ar...

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Copied by Matre Krestos in Northern Ethiopia, early fourteenth century; Abba Arkä Sellus [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Church of Mary of Seku [date of acquisition unknown] by gift; Church of St. George at Dabra Ma'ar, before 1973 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Robert and Nancy Nooter Collection [Nooter 20.15], Washington, D.C. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1996, by purchase.
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