Work of Art Record 51902

Record No

51902

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.S655.3

Location

Egypt, Janūb Sīnā', Mount Sinai, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Library of the Monastery of Saint Catherine

Date

third quarter 11c.

Subject Headings

Luke the Evangelist

Notes

Three of the Evangelist portraits are painted on the verso sides of inserted sheets (the recto sides are blank), but they are contemporary with the text. Luke's portrait is painted on a binion. (Weitzmann and Galavaris, p. 91).

Citations

Weitzmann, K., Illustrated Manuscripts, Mount Sinai (1973) , p. 15; figs. 16, 17

Weitzmann, K., & Galavaris, G., Mount Sinai: Greek Manuscripts, I (1991) , cat. 33; pp. 93-94; fig. 281

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