Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, with added Menologion

Евангелие царя Иоанна II Кроткого, с добавленными минеями {4845}
Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, with added Menologion

история:

Bequeathed by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche, widow of Robert Curzon, in 1917.

перемещение:

Copied in 1355...56 by a monk named Simeon for Tsar Ivan Alexander (reigned between 1331 and 1371), (colophon, ff. 274 - 275). Portrait miniatures of Tsar Ivan Alexander and his family (ff. 2v-3), 'Magic square' word puzzle with ex libris of Tsar Alexander (f. 273v).

Probably taken across the Danube into Moldavia to preserve it from the Ottoman invaders in 1393.

Monastery of St Paul, Mt Athos, Greece from 17th century (f. 286v), where it was acquired by the Hon. Robert Curzon (1810 - 73), in ~1833.

Part of collection of Curzon, later the fourteenth Baron Zouche, at Parham in Sussex ( - 1917)

Лондон: библиотека Британская (1917 )

London: British library

техника:

миниатюра

miniature

автор:

Симеон

Simeon

история:

монах

monk

название:

Destruction of Jerusalem, as prophesied by Christ

композиция:

оформление:

fol. 200.

предмет с изображением:

файл

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=1026&MSID=8071

Рождество

Nativity

композиция:

Nativity, with the magi arriving (left) and departing (right).

оформление:

fol. 10.

предмет с изображением:

файл

26315_2 - 102 k

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=1024&MSID=8071 - 114 k

оформление:

Miniatures (367), fully painted, of which two are portrait miniatures of the Tsar and his family on facing pages; the remaining are frieze-miniatures.

Headpieces, historiated, fully painted (4).

'Magic square' word puzzle (1).

Chrysography. Display script. Major initials fully painted.

оформление:

1355...56 (A.M. 6864). Bulgaria (perhaps Turnovo).

With addition of 1400...99.

Рукопись.

Manuscript.

Language: Bulgarian Church Slavonic.

Script: Formal Uncial Church Slavonic, by Simeon (colophon, ff. 274-275).

240х330 (135х230).

Folios: ff. i + 286.

Format: Codex. Vellum.

Binding: Original. Red-stained blind-stamped leather, Greek style binding with raised spine and grooved boards. Evidence of metalwork bosses, now missing.

№ Add. MS 39627.

посвящённый предмет: библиография [3023 pp. 32 - 33] [3024 no. 326] [3025] [3026 no. 11] [3027 pp. 42 - 44] [3028 no. 138] [3029 pp. 67 - 70] [3030 no. 195] [3031 pp. 121 - 123] [3032 no. 482] [3033 no. 207] [3034 p. 29] Dimitrova, E. The Gospels of tsar Ivan Alexander. - London, 1994). Filoff B. Miniaturite na londonskoto evangelie na tsar Ivan Alexander / Les miniatures de l’evangile du roi Jean Alexandre a Londres. - Sofia, 1934. Unpublished M.A. Report, Courtauld Institute, London, 1977. сайт The British Library - Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

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