Illuminated Incipit with Headpiece Introducing the Gospel of Mark

Description Under this illuminated headpiece on this folio from Walters manuscrpit W.592 is written Muqaddimat Injil Marqus al-Rasul (Introduction to the Gospel of Mark the Evangelist; lit.: messenger) in red Naskh.

Provenance Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Henry Walters Ex Libris book plate on the inside of the upper board]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters