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Detailed record for Egerton 609
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| Title |
Gospels, with the Epistle to Damasus, Canon tables, and prefaces, imperfect |
| Origin |
France, W. (Brittany, or Tours?) |
| Date |
9th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Caroline minuscule |
| Decoration |
2 full page miniatures of Evangelist portraits of Mark and John (ff. 45v, 78v). Canon tables in frames in brown and yellow, some with animal heads (ff. 3v-7). 4 very large decorated or zoomorphic initials in brown, orange, yellow, and sometimes blue, at the beginning of the text, and of Matthew, Mark, and John (ff. 1, 8, 46, 79). 4 smaller initials in yellow, orange, brown and sometimes blue, one with zoomorphic features, at the beginning of prefaces (ff. 1, 2v, 44v, 77v). Highlighing of letters in orange and/or brown or yellow. |
| Dimensions in mm |
310 x 210 (230 x 145) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 102 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Red gilt leather with gold-tooled paper; marbled end-papers. |
| Provenance |
The Benediictine abbey of St Martin at Tours, 15th century inscription 'Iste Liber est de Ecclesia beatissimi Martini Turonensis' (f. 102v).
The abbey of Marmoutier, 18th century: inscription 'Majoris monasterii Congregationis S Mauri' (f. 1), followed y a title, and in the lower margin the number '87'.
Bought in 1836 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Notes |
This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group with the sigla 'DELQR', and is designed 'E': see Marsden 1999 p. 290 and n. 25. |
| Select bibliography |
List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), 1836, p. 42.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-84), Part II Latin, p. 30.
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 4th edn, ed. by Edward Miller, 2 vols (London: George Bell & Sons, 1894), II, 76.
John Chapman, Notes on the Early History of the Vulgate Gospels (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908), pp. 49, n. 1, 280 (as 'E').
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 50.
Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Studies in the Script of Tours, 1, 2 vols (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mediaeval Academy of America, 1929), I, no. 140, II, pl. 15 [with additional bibliography].
Wilhelm Köhler, Review of Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 193 (1931), 321-36 (p. 326).
C. R. Morey, ‘The Gospel-Book of Landevennec: The Illumination of the Landevennec Gospels’, Art Studies: Medieval Renaissance and Modern (1931), 258-62 (p. 260 n. 3).
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 31.
G. L. Micheli, L’enluminure du haut moyen age et les influences irlandaises (Brussels: Editions de la connaissance, 1939), pp. 97-98, pls 140, 143.
Wilhelm Koehler, ‘The Fragments of an Eighth-Century Gospel Book in the Morgan Library (M. 564)', in Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, ed. by Dorothy Miner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954), pp. 238-65 (p. 256, as ‘E’).
René Crozet, 'Les représentations anthropo-zoomorphiques des évangelistes dans l'enluminure et dans la peinture murale aux époques carolingienne et romane', Cahiers de civilization médiévale, 1 (1958), 182-91 (p. 184).
Francis Wormald, An Early Breton Gospel Book, ed. by Jonathan Alexander (Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1977), pp. 14 n. 6, 19 n. 3.
J. J. G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 1 (London: Harvey Miller, 1978), p. 79.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), pp. 127, 134, 251.
Bonifatius Fischer, Beiträge zur Geschichte der lateinischen Bibeltexte, Vetus Latina, 12 (Freiburg: Herder, 1986), pp. 55, 206-7, 224-25, 227-28.
François Avril and Patricia Danz Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire VIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1987), p. 8.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, 13, p. 17* (as 'Be').
Patrick McGurk, ‘The Disposition of Numbers in Latin Eusebian Canon Tables’, in Philologia Sacra: Biblische und patristische Studien für Hermann J. Frede und Walter Thele zu ihrem siebzigsten Geburtstag, ed. by Roger Gryson (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), pp. 242-58 (p, 252 n. 26, 255 n. 37).
Richard Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine', in St Augustine and the Conversion of England, ed. by Richard Gameson (Phoenix Mill: Sutton, 1999), pp. 285-312 (pp. 290-91, 303) [with additional bibliography].
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 39, fig. 26. |
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f. 1
Decorated initials |
f. 2v
Decorated initial |
f. 3v
Canon table |
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f. 4
Canon table |
f. 8
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 44v
Interlace initial |
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f. 45v
Mark |
f. 46
Decorated initial 'I'(nitium) with animal heads and ... |
f. 77v
Decorated initial |
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f. 78v
John |
f. 79
Zoomorphic word |
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