Binding for Ethiopian Gospels

Description Provenance Credit

Description Binding is non-original, bound in Tegray, Ethiopia.

Provenance Copied by Matre Krestos in Northern Ethiopia, early fourteenth century; Abba Arkä Sellus [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Church of Mary of Seku [date of acquisition unknown] by gift; Church of St. George at Dabra Ma'ar, before 1973 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Robert and Nancy Nooter Collection [Nooter 20.15], Washington, D.C. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1996, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1996

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Creator

Ethiopian (Artist)

Period

early 14th century

Medium

plain wooden boards, broken and stitched, front and back; chain stitching at four points
(Manuscripts & Rare Books)

Accession Number

W.836.binding

Measurements

Overall: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (26.7 x 17 x 11.4 cm)

Geographies

Ethiopia, Tegrey (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Christ's Resurrection, flanked by two women	Title
early 14th century (Early Solomonic)	Period
W.836.7R	Accession

Leaf from Ethiopian Gospels: the Crucifixion, with Christ Represented as Lamb on Top of the Cross	Title
early 14th century (Early Solomonic)	Period
W.836.6V	Accession