Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 53129

Millet No.: 1.W858.9 - 3
Millet No.: 1.W858.9 - 3

Record No

53129

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.W858.9

Location

United States, Washington DC, Dumbarton Oaks

Date

1084

Subject Headings

Luke the Evangelist

Description

Fol. 151r: Within architectural setting, Evangelist Luke nimbed, with pen in right hand writing on page in left hand, seated on cushioned bench, feet on footstool, beside desk on which are case and dolphin lectern on which is scroll; decorated border; below

Notes

Formerly MS 49 in the Pantocrator Monastery at Mount Athos. Fol. 78 is in Athens, Benaki Museum, 34.1; fol. 254r is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (50.154); fol. 187 bis is in Moscow, Tretjakovskaja Galereja, 2580.

Citations

Der Nersessian, S., "Psalter and New Testament," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, XIX (1965), pp. 155 ff.; color pl. opp. p. 155; figs. 1-11, 13, 15, 19-34, 36-55, 59-62

Princeton, Art Museum, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts (1973), cat. 20; pp. 17, 22-23, 31 ff., 100 ff., 104 ff., 109, 120; figs. 33-35and New Testament," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, XIX (1965), p. 158; fig. 10

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