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Gospel Book
Not on view
In a manner similar to nearly all Armenian Gospel Books, this one opens with the Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus explaining the significance of the ten canon tables (khoran) that follow. Eusebius is shown as an old man with a long gray beard, and Carpianus is depicted as a younger man with dark hair. The artist K‘ristosatur modeled the illuminations on miniatures found in the Smbat Gospel Book, a late thirteenth-century Cilician manuscript.
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