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Source Description
This small, densely written volume of the New Testament was evidently made for personal reading. It represents high-level manuscript production in the first decades of the late Byzantine period. ca. 1300. By 1628, it is known to have been in the Chilandari Monastery, or one of its dependencies, on Mount Athos.
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Document identity
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32763
label
Gospels with Acts of the Apostles and Epistles
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Source metadata
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32763
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title
Gospels with Acts of the Apostles and Epistles
description
This small, densely written volume of the New Testament was evidently made for personal reading. It represents high-level manuscript production in the first decades of the late Byzantine period. ca. 1300. By 1628, it is known to have been in the Chilandari Monastery, or one of its dependencies, on Mount Athos.
provenance
Chilandari Monastery (or one of its dependencies), Mount Athos, ca. 1628; Léon Gruel, Paris (Gruel no. 1482) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase [date of acquisition unknown], Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1300 (late Byzantine)
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
16.5
height
11.5
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 6 1/2 x W: 4 1/2 in. (16.5 x 11.5 cm)
Source extras
style
Byzantine
med
ink and pigments on medium-weight, cream-colored parchment covered with brown morocco leather with gilt silver studs along the edges, small gilt silver corner bosses of cherubim, blind-stamped symbols of the Evangelists in neo-Gothic style on both covers, two gilt silver clasps
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8611
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358
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Single page context
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1
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photo
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