Accession number:
MS M.740
Title:
Gospel Book
Created:
Sis, Cilicia, 1274.
Binding:
Traditional monastic Armenian 14th-century brown morocco over boards, blind tooled with floret stamps arranged within a diamond pattern; silk doublures.
Credit:
Purchased in 1928.
Description:
320 leaves (2 columns, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 275 x 205 mm
Provenance:
Made for Marshal Ōshin in 1274; owned by Ohan of St. Sargis in the 15th century (colophon on fol. 238); sold by Harouthioun Kurunlian Feb. 11, 1890 to Rev. Trdat Palian in Kayseri; sold by him to Haykazn Hapechian (Hapeshian) July 20, 1920; purchased by the Library from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in Dec. 1928.
Notes:
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Sis, Cilicia in 1274.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature of St. John and Prochorus; 2 full-page elaborately illuminated dedication pages; 4 elaborately illuminated canon tables; 4 large decorated headpieces.
The donor portrait from this manuscript long in private hands (Feron-Stoclet Collection, Brussels) was purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1998 and assigned the shelfmark M.1111.
Two of the missing evangelist portraits are found in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 201.3.
Scribe: Kostandin, who signed and dated the manuscript in the colophon on fol. 316v.
Script:
bolorgir
Language:
Armenian
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