Description: This is the first monographic study of the Glajor Gospel, a 14th-century illuminated Armenian manuscript. In addition to critical studies of the iconography of the illuminations, the authors provide the history of the manuscript and the political and cultural setting in which it was produced, and the history of the monastery and school of Glajor.
Brief description: Thomas F. Mathews is a specialist in early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture and is the John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Review Quotes: The book offers a paradigm, one which should become a classic, of how an individual illustrated manuscript must be studied.-- "Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies"