The New Testament

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript without covers; The New Testament; Estrangelo script in black and red; 331 folios; half page flyleaf, 7 paper and 324 parchments; colophon (fol. 331 recto); standard page: one column; 27 lines of text.

• Provenance

  To ?

  Mrs. Serunian. [1]

  To 1937

  Dr. H. H. Serunian, Worcester, Massachusetts; by inheritance from his mother, Mrs. Serunian. [2]

  From 1937

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Dr. H. H. Serunian, Worcester, Massachusetts. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Excerpt from the Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record: “Dr. Serunian inherited the book from his mother who was an Assyrian and brought it with her to this country. Dr. Serunian says that the covers were removed from the book to make it more easily portable when his mother's relatives escaped from Kurdistan to Persia in 1916.” See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [3] See note 2.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Christian Art (April 10, 1978 to October 12, 1978)

  Christian Art (December 1, 1971 to April 7, 1978)

  Christian Art (January 1, 1963 to May 15, 1968)

  Untitled Exhibition, Armenian and Byzantine Art (July 28, 1958 to January 1, 1963)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Serunian

  Dr. H. H. Serunian

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Serunian, H. H., Serunian

• Topic

  Art, Estrangelo script, Arts of the Islamic World, Bible, N.T.

• Culture

  Muslims, Christians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts