Accession number
MS M.621
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.621).
Display Date
ca. 1650.
Created
Constantinople, ca. 1650.
Binding
17th- or 18th-century traditional Armenian binding, burgundy leather over wooden boards, with fore-edge flap; covers later covered over with gilt-silver plates upon which are relief figures of a crucifix and saints (front) and Salvator mundi and the symbols of the four evangelists (back); leather fore-edge flap also covered with silver; silver chain mail spine and silver chain mail clasps; front doublure is green silk and back is green cotton or linen; the manuscript is stored in a red embroidered pouch typical of the Vaspurakan / Lake Van area (MS M.621A).
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1917.
Description
284 leaves (2 columns, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 140 x 101 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from P. Tonapetean (P. Tonapetian) in 1917.
Notes
Ms. gospel book; written and illuminated in Constantinople in the mid seventeenth century.
The flyleaves are in Greek.
Decoration: 21 full-page miniatures; 91 marginal figures; 10 decorative canon table frames; marginal and initial ornaments throughout.
The flyleaves are in Greek.
Decoration: 21 full-page miniatures; 91 marginal figures; 10 decorative canon table frames; marginal and initial ornaments throughout.
Script
bolorgir
Language
Armenian
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