Robert Curzon

1810–1873

Where you meet Robert Curzon

There the traveller Robert Curzon acquired it in 1837.

Scene 6 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

In 1876 the Curzon collection was deposited on permanent loan at the British Museum.

Scene 7 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

Open it and, before the Gospel narrative, his family faces you: crowns, red robes, names above their heads.

Scene 1 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

Panitza Library, American University in Bulgaria Special Collection: The Four Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander. AUBG LibGuides AUBG LibGuides
Simeon (scribe); anonymous medieval illuminators; British Library (custodian) Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, Add MS 39627 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
Scot McKendrick The Gospels of Czar Ivan Alexander Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), ed. Helen C. Evans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven/London: Yale University Press · 2004 · 56

All sources (7)

Sts Cyril and Methodius National Library, Bulgaria; British Library, UK The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander PDF UNESCO, International Memory of the World Register, revised nomination · 2016 · 8 pp.
UNESCO Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander Memory of the World, register entry · 2017
Lilyana Yordanova The Gospels Manuscript of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria Mapping Eastern Europe, eds Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan
University of Crete Library Visits to monasteries of the Levant / Robert Curzon Anemi Digital Library

Photograph

Studio of Richard Beard · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Photograph · 1840–1849 · detail

Full attribution

Studio of Richard Beard / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain. Photograph · 1840–1849 · detail