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Gospels with Acts of the Apostles and Epistles
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
This small, densely written volume of the New Testament was evidently made for personal reading. It represents high-level manuscript production in the first decades of the late Byzantine period. ca. 1300. By 1628, it is known to have been in the Chilandari Monastery, or one of its dependencies, on Mount Athos.
Provenance
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Chilandari Monastery (or one of its dependencies), Mount Athos, ca. 1628; Léon Gruel, Paris (Gruel no. 1482) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase [date of acquisition unknown], Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1993 | Bookish Business: Henry Walters and Leon Gruel. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1990-1991 | The Book and the Author: Portraits of the Evangelists in Eastern and Western Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1986 | Byzantine Gold: Illumination in Greek Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1947 | Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 6/23/1986 | Treatment | stabilized; repaired |
Measurements
Folio H: 6 1/2 x W: 4 1/2 in. (16.5 x 11.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
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.525