Walters Ms. W.529, Gospel Book Gospel Book Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340 Principal cataloger Parpulov, Georgi R. Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles 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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 Even though this volume contains the continuous text of the four Gospels, it is written in two columns, like a Gospel lectionary (e.g., W.520 and W.535). The leaves with Evangelist portraits are dyed red, in imitation of the very expensive purple-dyed parchment occasionally used in the fifth through ninth centuries. The style of the script, ornament, and images is a bit unusual, which makes it unclear whether the book was produced in the capital, Constantinople, or in some other part of the Byzantine Empire. A somewhat similar manuscript (Bucharest, Library of the Romanian Academy, Greek 1175) is now available in digitized form at www.e-corpus.org/fre/notices/141347-Tetraevangile.html. Unfortunately W.529 is too fragile to be fully digitized at this time, therefore only the binding has been imaged. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.529 The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453). 1r - 298v Gospel Book Incomplete, with losses to last quire. Fols. 1r–2r: letter of Eusebius to Carpianus; fols. 2v–7r: canon tables; fols. 7v–8v: chapters list for the Gospel of Matthew; fols. 10r–82r: Matthew; fols. 82r–84v: preface to the Gospel of Matthew; fols. 85r–v: preface to the Gospel of Matthew; fols. 85r-v: preface to the four Gospels; fols. 86r–v: chapters list for the Gospel of Mark; fols. 88r–134v: Gospel of Mark; fols. 138r–v: preface to the Gospel of Mark; fol. 138v: preface to the Gospel of Mark; fols. 136r–137v: chapters list for the Gospel of Luke; fol. 137v: verses in praise of the Evangelist Luke; fols. 139r–215r: Gospel of Luke; fols. 215v–216v: preface to the Gospel of Luke; fol. 216v: preface to the Gospel of Luke; fol. 217r: chapters list for the Gospel of John; fol. 217v: verses in praise of the Evangelist John, containing the name of the manuscript’s donor or scribe, Manuel; fols. 219r–274r: Gospel of John; fols. 274v–275v: preface to the Gospel of John; fol. 275v: preface to the Gospel of John; fols. 276r–291r: list of Gospel readings for the movable feasts; fols. 291r–298v: list of Gospel readings for the immovable feasts; ends imperfectly with February 28

Medium-weight parchment, severely damaged in the first few quires at the beginning and end of the book, with mold and water damage visible throughout

 Foliation: i+298+i25.0 19.0 15.3 106.0 Two sets of foliation: earlier incorrect pencil foliation lower right corners, rectos; modern pencil foliation upper right corners, rectos (used here)

Undetermined due to the fragile condition of the manuscript The scribe provided signatures in the form of a cross in the center of the upper margin of each quire's first page None

One hand throughout the manuscript Four full-page miniatures of Evangelists before their Gospels; canon tables framed by heavy ornament with foliate and bird designs in blue, red, green, and gold; decorated headpieces and initials mark main divisions of text; rubrics and other notations in gold over magenta; some rubrics in red only; text in brown ink

Early twentieth century: olive brown velvet over squared wooden boards; paper pastedowns and flyleaves

 Middle of the 11th century CE Byzantine Empire Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, by 1522 Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, no. 520/275 (seen there by E. Ioannidis in 1864, by C. R. Gregory on September 6, 1886, and by A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus in 1891) Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works Papadopoulos-Kerameus, A. Hierosolymitikē vivliothēkē hētoi katalogos tōn en tais vivliothēkais tou hagiōtatou apostolikou te kai katholikou orthodoxou patriarchikou thronou tōn Hierosolymōn kai pasēs Palaistinēs apokeimenōn hellēnikōn kōdikōn, 4 vols. (St.-Petersburg, 1891-1915; repr. Brussels, 1963), 4:253–255, cat. 275 Binggeli, A., M. Cronier, and D. Lafleur, "À propos d’un évangéliaire byzantin (Aland l 793) récemment mis en vente à Paris." Scriptorium 66 (2012): pp. 89-108, at p. 102 Parpulov, G. R. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 71-189, at pp. 106-109 Clark, K.W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), 359-360, with pls. lix and lxxi Spatharakis, I. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453 (Leiden, 1981), 80, with figs. 585–586, cat. 329 Vikan, G. ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts in American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann (Princeton, 1973), 148-149, cat. 40 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 Judaism Talmud 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 Book Greece Turkey 11th century Book Illumination Miniature Painting Scripture