Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "6871",
    "label": "Trebizond Gospels",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.531"
}

{
    "id": "6871",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.531",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Trebizond Gospels",
    "description": "This Gospel Book was probably made in Constantinople in the mid twelfth century and is remarkable for the fine execution and monumental quality of its full-page miniatures. The opening for the Gospel of Matthew is missing, but the other three Gospels are prefaced with a pair of miniatures each: the respective Evangelist on the left and a scene from the Gospel story on the right. The combination of St. John with the Raising of Lazarus is one found only in this manuscript. The text was copied by two scribes with distinctly different hands. One of them must have painted the ornament on fol. 175r, which contains curious animal figures.",
    "provenance": "Monastery of Saint George of Peristera near Trebizond (?); Pellikidis Collection, Trabzon, Turkey, 1924 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 12th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.531",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.531.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.531.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.531.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.3,
            "height": 22.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 12 11/16 x W: 9 in. (32.3 x 22.8 cm); Folio H: 12 5/8 × W: 9 1/16 in. (32 × 23 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "style": "Byzantine",
    "RelatedObjects": 25589,
    "med": "ink and pigments on medium quality parchment bound between squared wooden boards covered with light brown leather",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2289",
        "192",
        "2443",
        "2378",
        "57",
        "889",
        "2016",
        "358",
        "2012"
    ]
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.531.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "27959f07bcfbee2f"
}