Accession number:
MS M.749
Title:
Gospel book
Created:
Van, Armenia, 1461.
Binding:
Cloth and leather binding by Deborah Evetts, 1981.
Description:
310 leaves (2 columns, 22 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 236 x 160 mm
Provenance:
Commissioned in 1461 by the priest Mkrtich' and his wife Mughal Khat'un, who are named in the colophon; sold in 1546 by Berkijan, daughter of Hambil to the priest Malak'ia (colophon on fol. 18); purchased by Malijan in 1600 (colophon on fol. 18v); purchased by the Pierpont Morgan Library from M. Stora et cie, Paris, in 1929.
Notes:
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Van, Armenia, in 1461.
Scribe: Vardan (son of the priest Yovanes and his wife Zmrut) who has signed and dated the colophon on fol. 308v-309.
Decoration: prefatory cycle of 14 full-page miniatures; 4 Evangelist portraits and incipit pages, 10 canon tables, 4 marginal figures, zoomorphic and phylomorphic ornamental initials and marginal designs.
Artist: Minas.
Script:
bolorgir
Language:
Armenian
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