page_title: Zeytun Gospels
section_title: Illumination gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Zeytun Gospels / Illumination gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Annunciation from 13th century Armenian Gospel
context_page_description: The Zeytun Gospels of 1256 AD is an Armenian illuminated manuscript in the Armenian language by artist and ordained priest T'oros Roslin. The Zeytun Gospels consists of four tabernacles, four evangelists, four namesakes, ornaments and decorations. The manuscript's patron was Catholicos Constantine I of Bardzrberd and was commissioned for his godson Levon. It was transcribed in a scriptorium at the fortress Hromklay, "the God protected castle", in Cilician Armenia. Hromklay was also known as The School of Miniature Painting at the Catholicosate. The Hromklan scriptorium was at its peak while Roslin worked there on the Zeytun Gospels. The manuscript was later reintroduced as the Zeytun Gospels named after the mountain village of Zeytun during the late Ottoman Empire.
  Most of the manuscript, excluding the canon tables which are kept at the J. Paul Getty Museum, are at the Matenadaran in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
caption: T'oros Rosilin, Zeytun Gospels of 1256, Annunciation.
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