Keywords: Portrait of Mark in a Gospel According to the Four Evangelists.jpg en Portrait of Mark in a Gospel According to the Four Evangelists 1253 Yohanes Opaque watercolor ink and gold on parchment H 24 4 W 17 9 cm Armenia Purchase F1944 17 This eighteenth-century Armenian leather binding that encloses a mid-thirteenth-century Gospel is decorated with silver studs now tarnished in the form of a cross in the upper center A pair of small silver plaques in the shape of the evil eye are set on either side The crystal with its cruciform grooves in the center is particularly notable; it may have held a relic at one time underscoring the power and importance attached to Gospel books in Armenian culture 1253 http //www asia si edu/collections/singleObject cfm ObjectNumber F1944 17 Freer Gallery of Art PD-old-100 1253 works Armenian manuscripts in Freer Gallery of Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Miniatures of Saint Mark 13th-century illuminated manuscripts Armenian Gospel manuscripts |