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Book/Printed Material Gospel Book. Evangeliarium

About this Item

Title

  • Gospel Book.

Other Title

  • Evangeliarium

Summary

  • This famous and impressive Carolingian gospel probably was written in the scriptorium of Mainz in the first quarter of the ninth century. Its decoration comprises canon tables in the form of arcades painted in red, green, greyish blue, violet, yellow, and ochre, with their architectural frames decorated with floral and geometrical patterns. The portraits of all four of the evangelists, probably executed by two different painters, are preserved. The canon tables and two of the portraits (those of Matthew and John) apparently were modeled after the so-called Ada Gospels, now preserved in the municipal library of Trier (Cod. 22). The other evangelist portraits were based on a different model, which, it has been suggested, must have been similar to the southern English Codex Aureus, which is today kept in the Royal Library of Stockholm (Ms. A. 135). English, in particular southern English, influence also can be seen in the style of most of the larger initials, which accords with the presumed origin of this manuscript in the Mainz--Hersfeld area in the cultural region of Hesse in central Germany. This was one of the main areas of the Anglo-Saxon mission to the continent in the eighth century. Mainz was the archiepiscopal seat of Saint Boniface (circa 680--754), the English-born "Apostle of the Germans" and the first archbishop of Mainz, while the Benedictine monastery of Hersfeld was founded by two of Boniface's disciples.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [800 to 825]

Headings

  • -  Germany--Rhineland Palatinate--Mainz
  • -  800 to 825
  • -  Bible
  • -  Bible. New Testament
  • -  Illuminations

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "BSB shelfmark: Clm 28561"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 169 sheets, parchment : illustrations ; 32.5 x 22 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Bavarian State Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667754

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Gospel Book. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 800 to 825, 0800] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667754/.

APA citation style:

(0800) Gospel Book. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 800 to 825] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667754/.

MLA citation style:

Gospel Book. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 800 to 825, 0800] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667754/>.