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Accession number:
MS M.1112
Title:
Gospel Book
Created:
Lake Van region, Turkey, 14th cent.
Credit:
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund and Fellows Endowment Fund, March, 1999.
Description:
1 single leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 337 x 223 mm
Provenance:
Irma and Jack Guevrekian, Manhasset, N.Y.
Notes:
Ms. gospel book single leaf; written and illuminated in Turkey, Lake Van region, 14th century.
Decoration: on recto, full-page miniature depicting the Nativity, the Magi and the Shepherds; on the verso a full-page miniature depicting the Baptism of Christ.
Scribe and artist: Vrtʻanēs.
Script:
bolorgir
Language:
Armenian
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