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Gospel Book
Toros Roslin Armenian
Catholicos Konstadin I Armenian
Monastery of Hṙomkla
Not on view
These canon tables (khoran) from the first signed work by T‘oros Roslin are decorated with motifs inspired by those of his teachers at Hromkla. Originally nested between other folios in the manuscript, each of these pages faced a page with a matching image. Roosters stride over human heads in the foliage of the headpiece on the left. Quails eat grapes atop the headpiece on the right. Catholicos Nerses the Gracious (Shnorhali) of Hromkla wrote that contemplating the canon tables prepared one to read the Gospels.
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