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Christ's Cure of the Blind Man at Bethsaida.
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1 drawing on vellum : col. ;
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Date
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1300,1307
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Type
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Folio
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Subjects
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Jesus Christ
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Illustrations - Armenia - 1301-1325
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Blindness
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Description
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One image covering bottom one-third of folio: Against the backdrop of the village of Bethsaida, Christ, nimbed and wearing robes, is shown leading the blind man of Mark 8:27-34 with his l. hand by holding the man's r. hand and anointing his eyes with spittle on two fingers of this r. hand. The blind man wears a purse on a strap over his l. shoulder. Adjacent text: Gospel of Mark in Armenian, comissioned by abbot Esayi Ncé°ec°i.
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Source
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Bible. N.T. Gospels. Armenian. Gladzori Avetaran. [Glajor Gospel]. [between 1300 and 1307] Arm. ms. 1 p. 235.
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Origin
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Armenia
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Manuscript
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University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Manuscript. Arm. ms.1 [Glajor Gospel]
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Notes
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Glajor, Armenia, first quarter of the fourteenth century (ca. 1300-1307).
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Attributed to: T°oros Taronec°i.
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Described In
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Mathews & Sanjian. Armenian gospel iconography, repr. pl. 50 disc., p. 123.
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