Gospel Book

late 11th century

26 cm 34.3 cm

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This eleventh-century Gospel Book is of great importance for art historians due to the style of its miniatures, which suggest that it may have been produced in Antioch on the Orontes. The city was a major Byzantine center before its fall to the Seljuks in 1084, but very little...

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28163
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 1541-42, by gift; Patriarch Damianus, Damascus, 1918 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Paris, after 1918 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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