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Apocalypse with Patristic Commentary
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
This manuscript was made around 1800 by the Old Believers, a group of Russian Christians who dissented from the Russian Orthodox Church and were subsequently persecuted and excommunicated. Because their books were often confiscated and they were forbidden to use printing presses, they continued to write important works such as this one by hand. The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament book of Revelation along with a patristic commentary, which is accompanied by a series of seventy-one striking full-page miniatures.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; The Walters Art Museum, 2005, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 2020 | Visions of the End. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, Knoxville. |
Geographies
Russia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Folio H: 11 7/16 × W: 8 1/4 in. (29 × 21 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 2005
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.917