Binding from Ethiopian Gospels

Description Provenance Credit

Description Binding is original. Plain wooden boards, broken and stitched, front and back, with remains of leather on the upper board; chain stitching at six stations

Provenance Monastery at Gunda Gunde, northeastern Ethiopia, early- to mid- sixteenth century; Church of Mädhane Aläm at Mäjate, Ethiopia, 1892-1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, France, prior to 1973 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sam Fogg, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1998, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1998

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Creator

Ethiopian (Binder)

Period

first half of the 16th century

Medium

Plain wooden boards, broken and stitched, front and back, with remains of leather on the upper board; chain stitching at six stations
(Manuscripts & Rare Books)

Accession Number

W.850.binding

Measurements

H: 11 13/16 x W: 10 x D: 3 9/16 in. (30 x 25.4 x 9 cm)

Geography

Ethiopia (Place of Binding)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Mary and Joseph with the Innocents massacred by King Herod	Title
first half of the 16th century (Stephanite)	Period
W.850.2R	Accession

The Magi and the shepherds	Title
first half of the 16th century (Stephanite)	Period
W.850.2V	Accession

Virgin and Child flanked by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel	Title
first half of the 16th century (Stephanite)	Period
W.850.3R	Accession

Portrait of the Evangelist Matthew	Title
first half of the 16th century (Stephanite)	Period
W.850.4V	Accession

Leaf from Ethiopian Gospels	Title
first half of the 16th century (Stephanite)	Period
W.850.5R	Accession