MAKE A MEME View Large Image Byzantine - The Martyrdom of Saint Timothy - Walters W521203V.jpg The manuscript is known as a menologion from the Greek for month It was written and illuminated in the imperial scriptorium in Constantinople and is one of the few editions ...
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Keywords: Byzantine - The Martyrdom of Saint Timothy - Walters W521203V.jpg The manuscript is known as a menologion from the Greek for month It was written and illuminated in the imperial scriptorium in Constantinople and is one of the few editions to be so richly illustrated It is a collection of the lives of the saints honored in January and is arranged by the days of the liturgical year on which each saint is venerated ca 1025 1050 ink paint and gold on parchment cm 30 23 5 accession number W 521 203V 77780 Library of the Greek Patriarchate Alexandria no 32/33 known to have been there in 1895 and 1901 but reported lost by 1914 Henry Walters city Baltimore probably from Leon Gruel Paris Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Art in the Book The Vision of Architecture Painting and Sculpture in Illuminated Manuscripts The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license 2D Walters MS W521 - Menologion Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Saint Timothy
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