"Imperial" Menologion with Scenes of Martyrdom

عنوان:

"Imperial" Menologion with Scenes of Martyrdom

تاريخ المصدر:

ca. 1025-1050 (Byzantine)

الوصف:

This manuscript contains the biographies of saints whom the church commemorates in the month of January. It was originally part of a set containing volumes for each month of the year. A companion volume, with texts for March, now survives in Moscow (State Historical Museum MS gr. 183). Each chapter in both manuscripts opens with a miniature depicting the death of the respective saint, or less often, another significant event from his or her life. Each text also ends with a seven-line prayer for the well-being of an emperor whose name is spelled by the lines' initial letters as "MIC[H]AEL P." This is almost certainly the Byzantine emperor Michael IV, who reigned from 1034 to 1041. The meaning of the letter "P" is not quite clear. When first used, the books were read out in the emperor's presence, probably in one of the numerous chapels of the great imperial palace in Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. A single leaf from the Walters' volume is now kept in Berlin (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Ms. Graec. Fol. 31). By the sixteenth century, several folios were missing and paper leaves copied from a Metaphrastian Menologion were added at this time.For the latest information about this object, illuminated manuscripts, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Inscriptions: Reign: Style:

نوع المصدر:

illuminated manuscripts

الموضوع:

Culture: Byzantine

المنشأ:

Library of the Greek Patriarchate, Alexandria (no. 32/33) [known to have been there in 1895 and 1901, but reported lost by 1914]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase [probably from Leon Gruel, Paris]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

مادة الأثر:

ink and pigments on very high quality parchment and paper bound between squared wooden boards covered with red leather

المدى الزمني:

Dimensions: Binding H: 12 3/8 x W: 10 1/4 in. (31.5 x 26 cm)

حقوق معيار دبلن كور:

Public Domain

المُعرِّف:

W.521

جزء من:

MSS, MED
Manuscripts

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