File:Gospels of Georg Alexief, Original binding, Walters Manuscript W.546, Upper board outside.jpg

English: Original binding with dark brown leather over wooden boards, with a flap. The upper cover is stamped in gold with three-petal floral tools arranged in a lozenge around the center and placed in the corners of the main panel, which is also decorated by a rather random placement of small rosettes and seed-shaped tools. A border of interlace tools in blinds frame the cover. The lower corner has an even more random decoration of the same tools, original in gold but now much worn, and a frame of small quire interlace tools in blind. The flap is blind tooled with the seeds and rosettes, and diagonal lines. The spine is raised at the head and tail (repaired). The headbands are embroidered in tan and olive silk. There are traces of former attachments on the cover. The cover boards are lined with blue silk damask. This manuscript was created in the seventeenth century, perhaps in Constantinople, based on the style of its illumination. The gospel cycle that precedes the text contains slightly more miniatures than is traditional; especially notable are the two—representing the feeding of the five thousand and the cleansing of the temple—which come out of sequence at the end of the cycle. The miniatures in this manuscript, like many at this time, reflect the mingling of traditional Cilician and Western influences. Though the manuscript does not include a colophon, the signature of the painter, Hohannes, is visible on the bottom of the canon tables on fols. 29v-30r. This manuscript appears to have been well traveled: at some point, very small inscriptions in Greek were added to most of the miniatures; in 1883, it belonged to Georg Alexief of Moscow, according to a note in Russian on fol. 1r.