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Source Description
This image originally faced the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles in a late eleventh-century psalter and New Testament in Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 762. It seems likely that in this manuscript, the scribe and illuminator were the same person.
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Document identity
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25523
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Miniature with the Apostles Paul and Peter and the Evangelists John, Luke, Matthew, and Mark
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Source metadata
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title
Miniature with the Apostles Paul and Peter and the Evangelists John, Luke, Matthew, and Mark
description
This image originally faced the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles in a late eleventh-century psalter and New Testament in Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 762. It seems likely that in this manuscript, the scribe and illuminator were the same person.
provenance
[Folio 211 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 762]; 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
late 11th century
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
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2
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2
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import
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cm
width
14.7
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10
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Folio H: 5 13/16 x W: 3 15/16 in. (14.7 x 10 cm)
Source extras
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Byzantine; Christian
style
Byzantine
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ink and pigments on high quality, exceptionally white and thin parchment
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6640
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2289
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1957
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1
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photo
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no
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2
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photo
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