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Bardzrberd Gospel Book
Probably Monastery of Hṙomkla
Not on view
The handsome illuminations and intricately decorated cover of this Gospel Book represent the height of manuscript production at Hromkla in the mid-thirteenth century. The artist Kirakos, who painted the evangelist Saint Mark with his writing tools on his desk, was a teacher of T‘oros Roslin, Hromkla’s most famous illuminator. The cover’s elaborate images of the Crucified Christ and Christ in Majesty in Heaven present the Gospels as the way to salvation.
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