Work of Art Record 47549

Record No

47549

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.L334.1

Location

United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, British Library

Date

1216 - 1220

Subject Headings

Christ, Harrowing of Hell

Notes

Colophon states that the manuscript was written under Patriarch John (1208-1220) and Mar Ignatios, katholikos of the East (1216-1222). It was probably made at the monastery of Mar Mattaï near Mosul.

Citations

New York, Metropolitan Museum, Glory of Byzantium (1997), cat. 254; p. 385; color fig. p. 254

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