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Gospel book (MS M.749).

Accession number
MS M.749
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.749).
Display Date
1461.
Created
Van, Armenia, 1461.
Binding
Cloth and leather binding by Deborah Evetts, 1981.
Description
310 leaves (2 columns, 22 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 236 x 160 mm
Provenance
Commissioned in 1461 by the priest Mkrtich' and his wife Mughal Khat'un, who are named in the colophon; sold in 1546 by Berkijan, daughter of Hambil to the priest Malak'ia (colophon on fol. 18); purchased by Malijan in 1600 (colophon on fol. 18v); purchased by the Pierpont Morgan Library from M. Stora et cie, Paris, in 1929.
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Van, Armenia, in 1461.
Scribe: Vardan (son of the priest Yovanes and his wife Zmrut) who has signed and dated the colophon on fol. 308v-309.
Decoration: prefatory cycle of 14 full-page miniatures; 4 Evangelist portraits and incipit pages, 10 canon tables, 4 marginal figures, zoomorphic and phylomorphic ornamental initials and marginal designs.
Artist: Minas.
Script
bolorgir
Language
Armenian