gospel book, walter art museum ms. w.523

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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

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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.

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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/