Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, volume 3, number 2 (Fall 2018).

CONTENTS INCLUDE

Illuminated Leaves from an Ethiopic Gospel Book in the Newark Museum and in the Walters Art Museum
Jacopo Gnisci  

This article shows that a group of loose folios kept in two different institutions, the Newark Museum and The Walters Art Museum, originally belonged to an Ethiopic Gospel book dating to the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. The study examines and analyses the Canon Tables and miniatures that once belonged to this Gospel book to draw conclusions concerning both their features and the broader history of Gospel illumination in medieval Ethiopia.

A Codicological Assessment of Three Gospel Books with Sideways-Oriented Illustrations Displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Armenia Exhibition
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi

This study focuses on three Armenian gospel books with sideways-oriented illustrations dating from between the 11th and 14th centuries that are part of the ARMENIA exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art between September 21, 2018 and January 13, 2019, and briefly discussed in the printed catalogue of that exhibition. With the aim to supplement that publication, it provides codicological descriptions and digital diagrams of the illustrated prefatory matter of the manuscripts in question. The three diagrams give visual overviews summarizing the layout and sequence of the sideways-oriented illustrations, and thus supply a critical tool for comprehending these books themselves as medieval works of art.

Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD by Georgi R. Parpulov (review)
Barbara Crostini

Georgi Parpulov's e-book on Byzantine psalters is a groundbreaking work that has tackled, singlehanded and courageously, a vast field, like a David before a Goliath. All the information provided is firsthand: Parpulov's acute examination of the manuscripts across their current repositories in different libraries has given him precious insights and a unique expertise in presenting this material. The pioneering character of his research should be emphasized. Through this publication, the author has offered the nuggets of his sharp scholarship together with a mass of raw materials for further research.