Walters Ms. W.548, Fragments of a Sluzhebnik (Euchologion) Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts Vesperinal Prayers Matutinal Prayers Prayers for All-Night Vigil Slavic Orthodox Liturgical Book <note type="title" xml:id="n493.757537">In the Russian church, this type of book is known as a Sluzhebnik; the equivalent in the Greek church is called a Euchologion</note> Cataloger Parpulov, Georgi R. Editor Herbert, Lynley 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 liturgical text is a rare example of an early Russian manuscript, dating from the fourteenth century. It offers a fascinating case study in the history of manuscript collecting. Because of some eleventh-century dates written in the text, the manuscript was long believed to have been made in that century. Later it was argued that the work was in fact a nineteenth-century forgery by a Russian collector, Alexander Sulakadzev (Demkova 1979). A recent study (Afanas'eva 2009), however, has determined its origin definitively: the pages of this book were cut from a larger manuscript (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ms. O. п. Ι. 4) and bound together (out of order), probably by Sulakadzev. Sulakadzev is also likely to have added the notes that made the text appear to date to the eleventh century. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.548 The primary language in this manuscript is Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic. 1r - 16v Slavic Orthodox Liturgical Book <note type="title" xml:id="n493.757585">In the Russian church, this type of book is known as a Sluzhebnik; the equivalent in the Greek church is called a Euchologion</note> 11r - 12v 7r - 9v 5r - 6v 10r - 10v Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Beginning and end of text missing; gaps between fols. 12v and 7r and between fols. 8v and 9r 15r - 16v 13r - 13v 2r - 2v Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts Beginning of text missing; gap between fols. 16v and 13r 1r - 1v 14r - 14v Vesperinal Prayers End of text missing 4r - 4v Matutinal Prayers End of text missing 3r - 3v Prayers for All-Night Vigil Beginning and end of text missing

Medium-weight parchment; brown stains on edges from use; some holes and uneven edges

 Foliation: 1617.0 12.5 12.5 9.0 Foliated in pencil on upper right rectos

1-8(2) None None Each bifolio appears to have been cut from the center of a quire from the larger manuscript (St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, O. π. Ι. 4)

 Hardpoint ruling Uncial, written by a single hand; several notes in margins by later users, including some that refer to medieval history and include medieval dates, which were probably added by Sulakadzev One inhabited initial (5 lines); sixteen decorated initials; prayer initials in capitals with blue fill; rubrics and some capitals in red; text in brown ink Initial "B" in the shape of a dragon biting its tail Inhabited initial "B," 6 lines

Disbound bifolia housed in a nineteenth-century binding of red velvet over pasteboard with paper pastedowns

 14th century CE Russia Created in Russia in the fourteenth century as part of a larger liturgical text (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia ms. O. п. Ι. 4) Alexander Sulakadzev, before 1816 (labeled and numbered on front pastedown: "Codex Sulakasianus Slavonicus membranaceus dictus: Coyбopникь const. fol.: 16. 1v-16v, saec XIo. Cum Postillis Sulakasianis") Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 (bookplate on front pastedown) Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works 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. 817. no. 369. Demkova, Natalia. "Древнерусские рукописи и старопeчатные kниги в нekotopыx собpaнияx" Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury 34 (1979): pp. 388-405. Parpulov, Georgi. "A Medieval Russian Manuscript at the Walters Art Museum (W.548)." Journal of the Walters Art Museum. Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): pp. 229-232, p. 230 fig. 1 (fol. 2r), p. 230 fig. 2 (fol. 13v). Afanas'eva, Tatiana. "Cлужебник Рнб О. п. I. 4 и Рукoпись Walter Art Museum (W. 548) – единый дpевнеpусский кoдекс пеpвoй пoлoвины XIV в." 2009. http://www.drevnyaya.ru/vyp/2009_2/part5.pdf Parpulov, Georgi. "Pre-1650 Cyrillic Manuscripts in U.S. Public Collections: A Catalogue." Palaeoslavica 18, no. 2 (2010): pp. 1-53, p. 7, no. 3. 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 Prayer book Christian 14th century Liturgy Russian Book Codex Manuscript Walters Art Museum Russia Ornament Scripture