Walters Ms. W.532, Gospel Book Gospels Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340 Principal cataloger Parpulov, Georgi R. Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 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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 This eleventh-century Gospel Book is of great importance for art historians due to the style of its miniatures, which suggest that it may have been produced in Antioch on the Orontes. The city was a major Byzantine center before its fall to the Seljuks in 1084, but very little of its artistic production survives. Unfortunately, the fragile condition of the manuscript and its binding makes full imaging impossible at this time, so only the exterior could be digitized. Although the volume contains the continuous text of the Gospels, its size is quite large, and it may have been used for public liturgical readings in church, much like a Gospel lectionary. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.532 The primary language in this manuscript is Greek, Ancient (to 1453). 1r - 303v Gospels Current order is as follows: fols. 1v-2r: letter of Eusebius to Carpianus; fols. 3v-10r: canon tables I-X; fols. 11r-14r: preface to Matthew; fols. 14r-15r: chapters list for Matthew; fols. 17r-94r: Matthew; fol. 94r-v: verses to Matthew; fols. 94v-95r: preface to Mark; fols. 95v-96r: chapters lists for Mark; fols. 98r-145v: Mark; fol. 146r: verses to Mark; fols. 146r-147v: Preface to Luke; fols. 147v-149r: chapters list for Luke; fols. 151-236v: Luke; fol. 236v: verses to Luke; fols. 236v-238r: preface to John; fol. 238v: chapters list for John; fols. 240r-301v: John; fol. 302r: verses to John; fols. 302r-303r: John 7:35-8:11 The original order of the leaves is: 1–11, 13, 12, 14–96, 150, 98–116, lacuna, 117–49, 97, 151–303

Heavyweight parchment, yellowed from use

 Foliation: i+303+i34.5 24.5

i, 1-5(2), 6(6,-3), 7(2,-2), 8-17(8), 18(2,-2), 19-20(2), 21(6), 22-24(8), 25(10,-4), 26-35(8), 36(6), 37(2,-2), 38-45(8), i Signatures written by the scribe in the outer upper corner of each quire's first page None Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 3(2), 5(3), 7(4), 9(5), 11(6), 16(7), 17(8), 25(9), 33(10), 41(11), 49(12), 57(13), 65(14), 73(15), 81(16), 89(17), 97(18), 98(19), 106(20), 114(21), 120(22), 128(23), 136(24), 144(25), 153(26), 161(27), 169(28), 177(29), 185(30), 193(31), 201(32), 209(33), 217(34), 225(35), 233(36), 239(37), 240(38), 248(39), 256(40), 264(41), 272(42), 280(43), 288(44), 296(45)

 Ruled in hardpoint Written in large, rounded liturgical minuscule; Eusebian letter, preface and chapter titles, and verses in Alexandrian Auszeichnungs-Majuskel, and the Gospel titles in epigraphic Auszeichnungs-Majuskel Four full-page miniatures; Eusebius letter and canon tables framed by ornament; decorated headbands, headpieces, and decorated initials mark main divisions of text; rubrics and other notations in gold over magenta; text in brown ink

Covered, probably in the mid-sixteenth century, with blind-tooled brown goatskin over squared flush-grooved wooden boards; later re-covered with red velvet; traces of metal attachments

 Late 11th century CE Eastern Mediterranean Given to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1541/42 Taken to Damascus by Patriarch Damianus of Jerusalem ca. 1918 Bought by Henry Walters in Paris, after 1918 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works Parpulov, Georgi R. "A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum." Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 119-122, p. 161 (fols. 2r, 4r), p. 162 (fols. 16v, 97v), p. 163 (fols. 239v, 240r), p. 164 (fols. 17r, 94v, 146r, 166r) De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 759, no. 5 Saminsky, Alexander. "Assimilation and Creation of GreekArt in Antioch-on-the-Orontes in Syria during the Second Periodof Byzantine Domination (969–1084)." East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean II Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality. Acta of the Congress held at Hernen Castle (the Netherlands) in May 2006. Edited by K. Ciggaar and V. Van Aalst. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 199 (2013): pp. 219-226, figs. 3-5, 10, 13, 17, 22, 23. Clark, Kenneth Willis. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937, pp. 363-365 Walters Art Gallery. Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22, 1947. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1947, p. 145, no. 733, pl. CIV Berkowitz, David S. In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 1968, p. 28, no. 46 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 Gospel Book Byzantine Christian Book Codex Illustration Manuscript Greece Turkey 11th century Scripture Walters Art Museum