Record ID:
130702
Accession number:
MS M.378
Title:
Gospel Book
Created:
Greece, perhaps Mount Athos, 13th cent.
Binding:
Greek monastic 16th-century black calf over boards, blind tooled; in center of upper cover is a cross flanked by the letters IC, XC, and NK; inside covers are lined with sheets from a printed Greek liturgy.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1908.
Description:
220 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 284 x 214 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Badin in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in the 13th century, perhaps Mount Athos in Greece.
Decoration: four full-page miniatures (Evangelist portraits); ornamental title heads.
Script:
heavy black cursive
Language:
Greek
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