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Gospel Book
Scriptorium Monastery of Skevra
Patron Nerses Lambronatsi Armenian
Not on view
Saint Nerses of Lambron and his brother, Prince Hetum, head of the Hetumids at Lambron, commissioned this handsome work. The ornamentation on the incipit page for the Gospel of John is in the traditional Armenian mode. Select details introduced from the West—the Lamb of God over the headpiece and the evangelist symbols in the large first letter of the text—reflect the family’s contacts with the Latin Church. Armenian inscriptions on the Byzantine-style depiction of the Crucifixion make it an Armenian image.
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