Work of Art Record 53130

Record No

53130

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.W858.10

Location

United States, Washington DC, Dumbarton Oaks

Date

1084

Subject Headings

John the Evangelist

Description

Fol. 187r: Within landscape, Prochorus of Antioch nimbed, with pen in right hand writing on page in left hand, seated before Evangelist John nimbed, left hand raised, right hand extended, looking up toward Hand of God extended from arc of heaven. Incipit on preceding page.

Notes

Now Missing. 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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