Vienna, Mekhitarist Library, Ms. 697

Gospel Book of the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna Facsimile Edition

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The Gospel Book of the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna survives as an imposing fragment of an Armenian Gospel manuscript created around the year 1000. Its eight preserved parchment leaves retain brilliantly colored illuminations despite the loss of the text. The surviving cycle includes canon tables, sanctuary imagery, the Sacrifice of Isaac with the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Baptism of Christ, the Crucifixion, and portraits of the Four Evangelists. Architectural arcades evoke early Christian sacred spaces, transforming the opening of the Gospels into a visual passage from the earthly world toward the holy text itself.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Gospel Book of the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna": Evangeliar Codex 697 der Mechitharisten-Congregation zu Wien facsimile edition, published by Union Verlag, 1981

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Evangeliar Codex 697 der Mechitharisten-Congregation zu Wien

Berlin: Union Verlag, 1981

  • Commentary (English abstract, French abstract, Italian abstract) by Buschhausen, Heide; Buschhausen, Helmut
  • Limited Edition: 1000 copies
  • This is a partial facsimile of the original document, Gospel Book of the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna: the facsimile might represent only a part, or doesn't attempt to replicate the format, or doesn't imitate the look-and-feel of the original document.

The folios are reprduced on a larger white background. Facsimile (16 pages) and commentary (56 pages) are included in the same volume.

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