• [Russian Orthodox Quadriptych]

Format:

• Visual material

Publisher:

• [Russia?], [between 1700 and 1899]

Language:

• Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic

Photography Examples:

• Original Photography

Subject:

• Christian art and symbolism—Russia (Federation)—Modern period, 1500-
• Christianity and art—Orthodox Eastern Church
• Icons, Russian—18th century
• Icons, Russian—19th century
• Church decoration and ornament—Russia (Federation)
• quadriptychs

Source acquisition:

• Gift; H. Bertram Lewis; 1952.

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcxk81jz18h

Range label:

• Logical

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99131680187906421

Extent:

• 1 object : brass ; 80 x 110 mm (folded), 80 x 410 mm (unfolded)

Description:

• Portable folding cast-brass altar in four panels, with ogee-arch crests; highlighted in blue and white enamel with traces of gilding. Quadriptychs of this type were manufactured for Old Believer use in the 18th-19th centuries. Inscription on outer panel in Church Slavic.
• When the quadriptych is fully unfolded, the panels show the following iconographical program, with Old Church Slavic inscriptions: Panel A: (1) The Annunciation. (2) The Nativity of Christ. (3) Birth of the Virgin. (4) Entrance of the Virgin into the Temple. (Ogee-arch [kokoshnik]): Crucifixion scene (verso). Panel B: (1) The Meeting in the Temple. (2) Baptism of Christ. (3) Transfiguration of Christ (4) Entrance into Jerusalem. (Ogee-arch): Trinity (inscription reads "Ascended into the Heavens and sat at the right side of the Father"). Panel C: (1) Resurrection. (2) Ascension. (3) Holy Trinity. (4) Dormition of the Virgin. (Ogee-arch): Exaltation of the Cross with St. Constantine and St. Helen (inscription reads: "Exaltation of the honorable and life-giving Cross of the Lord"). Panel D: (1) The Tikhvin Virgin with St. Alexander of Jerusalem and St. Cyril (2) The Vladimir Virgin St. Maxim and St. Basil. (3) Virgin of the Sign with St. Anthony and St. Leonty. (4) Smolensk Virgin with St. Anthony and St. Theodosia. (Ogee crest): Praise of the Virgin (inscription reads "Icon of praise of the most Holy Virgin").

Provenance:

• AM 14645

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton Church Slavic MS no. 3.

Created:

• 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z/1899-12-31T23:59:59Z

Date:

• 1700-1899

Call number:

• C1526 (Princeton Church Slavic MS no. 3)

Location:

• Special Collections C1526 (Princeton Church Slavic MS no. 3)

Spatial:

• Russia (Federation)

Donor:

• Lewis, H. Bertram