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Binding from Gospel Lectionary
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
Binding is non-original. Byzantine (?) squared wooden boards covered with red velvet ca. 1920-1930; flat spine; raised endbands; pastedowns and flyleaf of unwatermarked paper
Provenance
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Church of St. Nicholas Gropnicki or the Virgin Gropnicka in Ohrid, Macedonia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Library of the Metropolitan Church of St. Clement, Ohrid, no. 49 [seen there by F. I. Uspenskii in 1898, church no longer extant]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Measurements
Overall: 11 13/16 x 9 1/16 in. (30 x 23 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.520.binding
