Gospel Book

mid 11th century

19 cm 25 cm

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Even though this volume contains the continuous text of the four Gospels, it is written in two columns, like a Gospel lectionary (e.g., W.520 and W.535). The leaves with Evangelist portraits are dyed red, in imitation of the very expensive purple-dyed parchment occasionally us...

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Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem,1522 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople [no. 520/275, seen there by E. Ioannidis, 1864, by C. R. Gregory, September 6, 1886, and by A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1891]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase [date of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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