The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary the story of a Byzantine book John Lowden

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowden, John

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), publisher, repository.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Bible. Gospels--Illustrations.

Bible.

Jaharis Gospel Lectionary.

Lectionaries--Manuscripts--Illustrations.

Lectionaries.

Bible. Gospels.

Evangeliaries--Turkey--Istanbul--Illustrations.

Evangeliaries.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine--Turkey--Istanbul.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Genre:

Illustrated works

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 130 pages) illustrations (chiefly color), color facsimiles

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Haven Yale University Press [2009]

Language Note:

Text in English with some Greek; illuminated manuscript in Greek

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"The Jaharis Byzantine Gospel lectionary was until 2008 a hidden treasure: a manuscript almost entirely unknown, even to scholars. Superbly preserved, it represents the apogee of Constantinopolitan craftsmanship around the year 1100 and is arguably the most important Byzantine work to come to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renowned collection since the gifts of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917. For more than one thousand years, from its founding in Constantinople, New Rome (now Istanbul, Turkey), in 330 until its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the Byzantine Empire witnessed the creation of masterpieces of religious and secular art ... Over the last decade the Metropolitan Museum's exceptional collection of the arts of the Byzantine world has been handsomely reinstalled in the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art. Long missing from the Metropolitan Museum's expansive collection of Middle Byzantine art, however, has been a superlative example of an illuminated book, one of the preeminent artistic traditions of the Byzantine Empire. Now, through the continued generosity of Mary and Michael Jaharis, the Metropolitan has acquired one of the finest illuminated liturgical texts of the era, the Jaharis Gospel Lectionary. In this important study John Lowden, a leading expert on Byzantine manuscripts, discusses this extraordinary work within the broader context of Byzantine book illumination. He traces the lectionary's history from its acquisition by the Metropolitan backward through Paris, Athens, Mount Athos, and Istanbul to its production in Constantinople. Through detailed analysis and comparison, accompanied by sumptuous color illustrations of the Jaharis Gospel Lectionary and other, closely related illuminated manuscripts, Professor Lowden shows that the lectionary was made for use in the patriarchal church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople-the seat of the Orthodox Church and the primary site at which the emperor worshipped-or one of its nearby affiliated churches"--From book jacket

Contents:

Prologue

Retracing history. To the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Paris ; Sojourn to Paris ; Acquired on Mount Athos by Constantin Erbiceanu ; In the possession of Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem ; Earlier users leave their marks

Reconstructing use. The Gospel Lectionary in Byzantium ; Using the Jaharis Lectionary ; The Jaharis Lectionary Menologion ; Lectionaries for Hagia Sophia and the Patriarchate ; The "Taxis and Akolouthia for September 1" ; Constantinopolitan and Patriarchal indicators ; Uncorrected mistakes in the Menologion of the Jaharis Lectionary

Exploring manufacture. Materials and craftsmanship ; Evangelist portraits ; Binding and flyleaves

Contextualizing production. Summary of decorative schemes in Gospel Lectionaries related to the Jaharis Lectionary, circa 1100 ; Explanations for difference

Epilogue

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Lowden, John. Jaharis Gospel Lectionary

OCLC:

680553103