Ask the Scholar
Page 1 of 1
I can add historical knowledge about this page.
Page image
Document source description
This Gospel Book, with richly painted Evangelist portraits, canon tables, and marginal illuminations, was made in Armenia in the early seventeenth century. An extensive colophon reveals that it was commissioned by a woman named Napat' as a memorial for herself and her family, and the book was consequently given by her to the Church of St. Sargis in Amida. The illuminator of the manuscript, Hovannes, was one of the most prolific among the artists and scribes at the Amida scriptorium. On the present codex he worked with the scribe Melk'on. Known collaborators, Hovannes and Melk'on executed a number of codices together.
Page data
- Page
- 1
- Source index
- 0
- Type
- photo
- Media ID
- e66082164f21103d
- Size
- unknown
Document data
- ID
- 26743
- Core
- obj
- Type
- object
DTO data
{
"id": "26743",
"sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.541",
"contentType": "object",
"stage": "normalized",
"title": "Amida Gospels",
"description": "This Gospel Book, with richly painted Evangelist portraits, canon tables, and marginal illuminations, was made in Armenia in the early seventeenth century. An extensive colophon reveals that it was commissioned by a woman named Napat' as a memorial for herself and her family, and the book was consequently given by her to the Church of St. Sargis in Amida. The illuminator of the manuscript, Hovannes, was one of the most prolific among the artists and scribes at the Amida scriptorium. On the present codex he worked with the scribe Melk'on. Known collaborators, Hovannes and Melk'on executed a number of codices together.",
"provenance": "Created by Hovannes, son of Chanipek and Et’ar, and copied by Melk’on, for Napat', Amida, Armenia (modern Diyarbakir, Türkiye), early 17th century; Church of Surb Sargis (St. Sargis), Amida, Armenia, by gift, 17th century [1]. Henry Walters, Baltimore, by 1924/1926 [2], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] The precise location of this manuscript is unknown between the 17th century and the mid 1920s. Massacres targeting Armenians and Assyrians occurred in Amida from 1895-1915, and the church was destroyed during WW I and the Armenian genocide.[2] This manuscript was either purchased from Ohanian of Galatz, Bulgaria (modern Gala?i, Romania) in 1924 or from Kelekian or Gruel in 1926.",
"date": "early 17th century",
"citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.541",
"rightsUri": "CC0",
"language": "en",
"genreSpecific": [
"illuminated manuscripts"
],
"iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.541.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.541.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
"largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.541.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
"imageCount": 1,
"pageCount": 1,
"source": "import",
"dimensions": [
{
"units": "cm",
"width": 25.6,
"height": 18.7
}
],
"dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 1/16 × W: 7 3/8 in. (25.6 × 18.7 cm)"
}
Context sent to Scholar
Document identity
{
"localId": "26743",
"label": "Amida Gospels",
"core": "obj",
"dtoType": "object",
"citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.541"
}
Document source metadata
{
"id": "26743",
"sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.541",
"contentType": "object",
"stage": "normalized",
"title": "Amida Gospels",
"description": "This Gospel Book, with richly painted Evangelist portraits, canon tables, and marginal illuminations, was made in Armenia in the early seventeenth century. An extensive colophon reveals that it was commissioned by a woman named Napat' as a memorial for herself and her family, and the book was consequently given by her to the Church of St. Sargis in Amida. The illuminator of the manuscript, Hovannes, was one of the most prolific among the artists and scribes at the Amida scriptorium. On the present codex he worked with the scribe Melk'on. Known collaborators, Hovannes and Melk'on executed a number of codices together.",
"provenance": "Created by Hovannes, son of Chanipek and Et’ar, and copied by Melk’on, for Napat', Amida, Armenia (modern Diyarbakir, Türkiye), early 17th century; Church of Surb Sargis (St. Sargis), Amida, Armenia, by gift, 17th century [1]. Henry Walters, Baltimore, by 1924/1926 [2], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] The precise location of this manuscript is unknown between the 17th century and the mid 1920s. Massacres targeting Armenians and Assyrians occurred in Amida from 1895-1915, and the church was destroyed during WW I and the Armenian genocide.[2] This manuscript was either purchased from Ohanian of Galatz, Bulgaria (modern Gala?i, Romania) in 1924 or from Kelekian or Gruel in 1926.",
"date": "early 17th century",
"citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.541",
"rightsUri": "CC0",
"language": "en",
"genreSpecific": [
"illuminated manuscripts"
],
"iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.541.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.541.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
"largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.541.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
"imageCount": 1,
"pageCount": 1,
"source": "import",
"dimensions": [
{
"units": "cm",
"width": 25.6,
"height": 18.7
}
],
"dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 1/16 × W: 7 3/8 in. (25.6 × 18.7 cm)"
}
Document source extras
{
"cul": "Armenian",
"style": "Armenian",
"med": "ink and pigments on smooth, yellow paper bound between boards covered with blind-tooled cross and rectangle and the inner boards lined with red silk",
"creator_ids": [
"7019",
"33498"
],
"collection_ids": [
"MSS"
],
"exhibition_ids": [
"2707",
"2289",
"2059",
"65"
]
}
Page context
{
"seq": 1,
"pageIndex": 0,
"type": "photo",
"url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.541.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
"mediaId": "e66082164f21103d"
}