Gospel Book, Walter Art Museum MS. W.523
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This manuscript is of interest for the history of Greek handwriting because it presents a remarkably early example of a less formal, cursive script used for copying books (rather than just documents). The miniature at the beginning of the volume dates from ca. 1150 and must have been added as late as 1920-1930 in order to raise the book's selling price. It is rather damaged but reveals the preliminary drawing which guided the painter at the final stages of his work.
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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.523, Gospel BookTitle: Gospel Book
Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201
http://www.thewalters.org/
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.523
Descriptive Title Gospel Book
Text title Gospel Book
Author Authority name: Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea,ca. 260-ca. 340.
Abstract This manuscript is of interest for the history of Greekhandwriting because it presents a remarkably early exampleof a less formal, cursive script used for copying books (ratherthan just documents). The miniature at the beginning of thevolume dates from ca. 1150 and must have been added as lateas 1920-1930 in order to raise the book's selling price. It israther damaged but reveals the preliminary drawing whichguided the painter at the final stages of his work.
Date 10th century CE
Origin Byzantine Empire
Form Book
Genre Scriptural
Language The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient(to 1453).
Support material Parchment
High quality parchment, light, smooth, and remarkably thin
Extent Foliation: 335Pencil foliation begins in upper right corners of rectosthrough fol. 4; foliation then continues from fol. 5 throughthe end in lower right corners of rectos; foliation omits leavesafter fols. 213, 220, and 262
Collation Formula: 1(4), 2-12(8), 13(8,-7), 14-20(8), 21(6), 22-33(8),34(10), 35-40(8), 41(2), 42(4), 43(8), 44(6)
Catchwords: None
Signatures: None
Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 5(2), 13(3),21(4), 29(5), 37(6), 45(7), 53(8), 61(9), 69(10), 77(11),
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85(12), 93(13), 100(14), 108(15), 116(16), 124(17), 132(18),140(19), 148(20), 156(21), 162(22), 170(23), 178(24),186(25), 194(26), 202(27), 210(28), 217(29), 224(30),232(31), 240(32), 248(33), 256(34), 265(35), 273(36),281(37), 289(38), 297(39), 305(40), 313(41), 315(42),319(43), 327(44); the first four leaves of quire 1 are all tipped
Dimensions 15.5 cm wide by 21.8 cm high
Written surface 7.6 cm wide by 13.5 cm high
Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 19
Contents fols. 1r - 332r:Title: Gospel BookContents: Fols. 1r-v: letter from Eusebius to Carpianus;fols. 2r-3v: readings for the feast days from September1 to January 21; fol. 5r, lower margin: readings for thefeast days from January 22 to January 30; fols. 5r-98r:Gospel of Matthew; fols. 99r-158r: Gospel of Mark;fols. 159r-257v: Gospel of Luke; fols. 257v-258v:readings for the feast days from February 1 to June29; fols. 260r-332r: Gospel of John; fols. 262bis r-v:readings for the feast days from July 1 to August 31Hand note: Main hand written in sloping cursiveminuscule, medium brown ink; fols. 2-3, 258, 262biscopied in thirteenth- or fourteenth-century hand
Decoration fol. 4v:Title: The Evangelist JohnForm: Full-page miniatureComment: This miniature was certainly painted fora somewhat larger volume: it has been noticeablytrimmed to fit its present position. Even though itnow faces the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, itportrays the Evangelist John; the text of John 1:1 iswritten in the book in front of the Evangelist.
Binding The binding is not original.
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Early twentieth-century (probably Leon Gruel); tooledleather over squared wooden board; five brass bosses on eachcover; slightly raised endbands; pastedowns are fragmentsfrom Chicago, University of Chicago Library MS 138,fourteenth century
Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase from Leon Gruel
Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek NewTestament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 350–351 with pl. lv
K. Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des 9. und10. Jahrhunderts. Addenda und Appendix. (Vienna, 1996),80 with fig. 631
G. R. Parpulov, “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscriptsof the Walters Art Museum”, Journal of the Walters ArtMuseum 62 (2004), 71-189, esp. 91-93
N. F. Kavrus-Hoffmann, "Tenth-Century Greek Gospels atthe Walters Art Museum: Writing Styles and OrnamentalMotifs", Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004),21-34, eps. 27-34
Contributors Principal cataloger: Parpulov, Georgi R.Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, WilliamCopy editor: Joyal, StephanieConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, AbigailContributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Izer, Emily;Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2013
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
21201http://www.thewalters.org/
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2013
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
21201http://www.thewalters.org/
