Work of Art Record 51916

Record No

51916

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.S649.4

Location

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

Date

1074

Subject Headings

Christ, Betrayal
Psalm 041 (LXX, 040)

Notes

The pictorial cycle is incomplete. Psalms 17 through 56, and Psalm 71 are illustrated. Easter tables begin with the year 6583 (1074/75) and end with the year 6605 (1096/97). The first date indicates the year of the manuscript's production.

Citations

Weitzmann, K., "Sinai Psalter cod. 48," Byzantine Liturgical Psalters and Gospels (1980), VII, p. 6; fig. 17

Weitzmann, K., & Galavaris, G., Mount Sinai: Greek Manuscripts, I (1991), cat. no. 30; p. 85; fig. 256

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