The Pozzi Gospels (Hakob's Gospels)
The Pozzi Gospels (Hakob's Gospels)
Artist
Hakob Jughayets’i
(Armenian, c. 1550 - 1613)
Place of OriginKeghi, Armenia
Date1586
Dimensions7 13/16 × 5 11/16 in. (19.8 × 14.5 cm)
MediumIlluminated manuscript. Paper with blind-stamped brown leather binding
ClassificationManuscripts
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange
Object number
2023.311
Not on View
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie, and Arpag Mekhitarian, Armenian Miniatures from Isfahan, Brussels, Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, 1986.
Nersessian, Vrej, Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
Greenwood, Tim, and Edda Vardanyan, Hakob's Gospels: The Life and Work of an Armenian Artist of the Sixteenth Century, London, Sam Fogg, 2006.
Adalian, Rouben Paul, Historical Dictionary of Armenia, Lanham, Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Samanian, Kouros, “Sukias House and Its Wall Paintings: Reflection of English-Armenian Links in the Safavid Period (1501-1736 AD) in Isfahan, Iran,” in Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 12, No 1 (2012): 77-99. Evans, Helen C. ed, Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
Maranci, Christina, The Art of Armenia: An Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018.
Esche-Ramshorn, Christiane, East-West Artistic Transfer Through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road, New York, Taylor & Francis, 2021.
"Acquisition of the Year", Apollo, p.58 (col.), December 2023.
Exhibition HistoryBritish Library, London, U.K., Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art, Spring 2001.about 1500
Early 19th century
Late 18th-19th century
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