Walters Ms. W.530.B, Moses receiving the law Leaf from a psalter 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 miniature once formed part of a psalter where it faced the beginning of Psalm 77 (78), which in Byzantine usage opened the second half of the Psalms. It is a cutting from a volume on Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 761. The latter manuscript can be dated precisely: the table on its fols. 3r-4v gives the dates of Easter for the years 6896-6919 (as calculated from the Creation of the world). The first of these corresponds to 1087-1088 CE and must be the year when the psalter was made. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.530.B The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453). 1r - 1v Leaf from a psalter Originally fol. 111 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 761; Psalm 76:13-21

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 Foliation: 111.7 9.1 6.2 5.3 Image originally on verso in parent manuscript

Cutting Bottom right corner of current verso; text originally on recto in parent manuscript

Hardpoint Perlschrift, copied by a single hand One full-page miniature Moses receiving the law Psalm 77 Full-page miniature The scene of Moses receiving the law illustrates the first verse of Psalm 77 (78) which originally faced the miniature: "Give ear, O my people, to my law." The prophet is shown thrice: taking off his sandals (Exodus 3:5), receiving the tablets of the law (Exodus 38:18), and addressing a group of Israelites.

The Greek explanatory inscriptions read: "The Prophet Moses receiving the tablets from the Hand of the Lord" (above), and "The Prophet Moses conveying them to the people" (below).

 1087 to 1088 CE Constantinople (?) Fol. 111 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 716 (formerly MS 609) Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired from Léon Gruel before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works Millet, Gabriel. “Le psautier arménien illustré.” Revue des études arméniennes 9 (1929): 162-181. Weitzmann, Kurt. “The Psalter Vatopedi 761: Its Place in the Aristocratic Psalter Recension.” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 10 (1947): 21-51 [reproduced in idem. Byzantine Liturgical Psalters and Gospels. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980, no. iii.] Vikan, Gary, ed. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973, pp. 108-109, no. 23. Spatharakis, Iohannis. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts: to the Year 1453. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1981, p. 35, no. 106-107, figs. 202-204. Cutler, Anthony. The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium. Paris: Picard, 1984, pp. 26-29, no. 15, figs. 61-77. Evans, Helen and William Wixom, eds. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, pp. 360-361, no. 241. Parpulov, Georgi. “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 71-189. 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 Psalter Byzantine Christian Illumination Manuscript Miniature Painting Walters Art Museum Greece 11th century Devotion Scripture Bible Turkey