Gospels

1666

14 cm 19.7 cm

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This manuscript was executed in 1115 of the Armenian era [1666 CE], and the scribe, Mikayel son of Bargham, identifies himself in a brief colophon on fol. 126r. Mikayel was a prominent scribe and artist active in second half of the 17th century. Close to two dozen manuscripts...

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Written by the scribe Mik'ayel, 1666, [location unknown]. Church of Surb Step’anos (St. Stephen), Tokat, Armenia [Türkiye] [1], [date of acquisition unknown] [2]. Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, by 1925, [mode of acquisition unknown] [inv. no. 5519]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] On deposit as a memorial for Khan Sult'an, his father T'at'os, his mother Ghimat', his brother T'oros, and his sons Sahak' and Abraham[2] The precise location of the manuscript is unknown between 1666 and 1925, and it may have been removed from Armenian territory at some point during the 19th-century Armenian Massacres, World War I, or the Armenian Genocide.
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