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Source Description
This manuscript is of interest for the history of Greek handwriting because it presents a remarkably early example of a less formal, cursive script used for copying books (rather than just documents). The miniature at the beginning of the volume dates from ca. 1150 and must have been added as late as 1920-1930 in order to raise the book's selling price. It is rather damaged but reveals the preliminary drawing which guided the painter at the final stages of his work.
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Document identity
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26404
label
Gospel Book
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obj
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object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
26404
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Gospel Book
description
This manuscript is of interest for the history of Greek handwriting because it presents a remarkably early example of a less formal, cursive script used for copying books (rather than just documents). The miniature at the beginning of the volume dates from ca. 1150 and must have been added as late as 1920-1930 in order to raise the book's selling price. It is rather damaged but reveals the preliminary drawing which guided the painter at the final stages of his work.
provenance
Leon Gruel, Paris, late 19th - early 20th century [date and mode oac acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, MD, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
10th century
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
21.8
height
15.5
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 8 9/16 × W: 6 1/8 in. (21.8 × 15.5 cm)
Source extras
style
Byzantine
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med
ink and pigments on high quality parchment, light, smooth, and remarkably thin covered with Early twentieth-century (probably Leon Gruel); tooled leather over squared wooden board; five brass bosses on each cover; slightly raised endbands; pastedowns are fragments from Chicago, University of Chicago Library MS 138, fourteenth century
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8611
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MSS
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358
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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cb50efbb966cd6cd