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Canon Tables and the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Gospel Book

The Walters Art Museum

10th centuryManuscripts & scrollsEthiopia at the Crossroads (2023)

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Plate 1Sargis (scribe), Canon Tables and the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Gospel Book, Armenia, 966 CE, ink and paint on parchment with trimmed margins, covered with dark brown blind-tooled goatskin, The Walters Art Museum, W.537, fols. w-2r.
Photography, unless otherwise attributed, by Ariel Tabritha and Elena Damon.
Catalogue entry locator Printed p. 218, cat. 135 (supplied scan PDF p. 215)
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Catalogue no. 135: Canon Tables and the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Gospel Book. 966 CE; ink and paint on parchment with trimmed margins, covered with dark brown blind-tooled goatskin; Armenia.

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Source date: 966 CE
Date evidence: Date supplied by the holding institution or source catalogue.
Holding institution: The Walters Art Museum
Recorded provenance: Armenia
Place evidence: Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
Catalogue source: Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2023)
Source record: Cat. 135
Source locator: Printed p. 218, cat. 135 (supplied scan PDF p. 215)
Source citation: Christine Sciacca, ed., Ethiopia at the Crossroads (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023).