Walters Ms. W.520, Gospel Lectionary Gospel Lectionary scribe Theodore Θεόδωρος Principal cataloger Parpulov, Georgi R. Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Joyal, Stephanie Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This is an example of a Gospel Lectionary written in the archaic, majuscule form of Greek letters. Liturgical books were inherently conservative and therefore commonly retained such antiquated writing. The scribe, a certain monk Theodore, has recorded his name in a verse at the end of the volume (fol. 179v). A leaf removed from this manuscript ca. 1900 is now in Sofia, National Library of Republic of Bulgaria NBKM Gr. 2. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.520 The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453). 1r - 179v Gospel Lectionary Fols. 1r-49v: readings for the weeks of John; fols. 50r-57v: readings for the weekends of Matthew; fols. 58r-81v: readings for the weekends of Luke; fols. 82r-129v: readings for Paschal Week; fols. 121v-128r: readings for the Hours of Good Friday; fols. 130r-173r: readings for the feast days from September 1 to August 31; fols. 178v-179v: list of readings for various occasions Πένητα σώζε, Χ(ριστ)έ, τῷ γεγραφώτι, Θεοδώρῳ μοναστ(ῇ) καὶ ξένῳ τῶν δικαίων. Peneta soze, Christe, to gegraphoti, Theodoro monaste kai xeno ton dikaion. Christ, save the poor scribe Theodore, monk and stranger to righteousness.

Stiff, badly cockled

 Foliation: i+17930.0 23.0 20.5 15.0 Twentieth-century pencil foliation in upper right corners of rectos (followed here); nineteenth-century ink pagination in middle of upper margins

i, 1-2(8), 3(8,-1), 4-6(8), 7(8,-1,2,3,6,7,8), 8-17(8), 18(8,-1), 19-22(8), 23(8,-4,5), 24(*,-6,7,8) Greek letters surrounded by circles in upper external corner of the first page of each quire None Quires begin on fols 1(1), 9(2), 17(3), 24(4), 32(5), 40(6), 48(7), 50(8), 58(9), 66(10), 74(11), 82(12), 90(13), 98(14), 106(15), 114(16), 122(17), 130(18), 137(19), 145(20), 153(21), 161(22), 169(23), 175(24); whole quires missing: one after 8, three after 11, one after 17

 Hardpoint; writing stands on ruled lines Upright pointed majuscule in brown ink; one hand throughout manuscript; second hand added the ekphionetic notation, titles, liturgical notes, and initials Readings from the Gospel of John Readings for the weeks of John Ornamented headpiece Synaxarion Readings from the Gospel of Matthew Readings for the weekends of Matthew Ornamented headpiece Synaxarion Readings from the Gospel of Luke Readings for the weekends of Luke Ornamented headpiece Synaxarion

Byzantine (?) squared wooden boards covered with red velvet ca. 1920-1930; flat spine; raised endbands; pastedowns and flyleaf of unwatermarked paper

 Second half of the 10th century CE Byzantine Empire Church of St. Nicholas Gropnicki or the Virgin Gropnicka in Ohrid, Macedonia 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, acquired before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 347-348 with pls. liii and lxxi W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament (Chicago, 1939), pl. lxvii, with description on the facing page I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453 (Leidenl, 1981), 73 with fig. 528, cat. 301 K. Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des 9. und 10. Jahrhunderts: Addenda und Appendix. (Vienna, 1996), 92 with figs. 685–86 G. R. Parpulov, “A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum”, Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004), 71-189, esp. 77-83 Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille Binding New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Christian Codex Manuscript Walters Art Museum Byzantine Gospel Lectionary Book Illumination Greece 10th century Liturgy