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Detailed record for Egerton 768
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| Title |
Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v) |
| Origin |
Germany, W., medieval Saxony (Corvey?) or France, N. |
| Date |
last quarter of the 9th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Caroline minuscule |
| Decoration |
4 full-page frames in gold, silver and colours, framing words or initials at the beginning of the Gospels (ff. 1v, 2, 62v, 63). 2 decorated full-page initials in gold, silver, and colours with zoomorphic features at the beginning of the Gospels (ff. 2, 63). Chrysography. Initials in red or brown. Apparatus in brown and red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
280 x 180 (210 x 100) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 112 ( + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf and stub at the beginning, and 1 leaf at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. German, c. 1485 stained red leather over 12th-century ? boards, stamped with double-headed eagles, mermaids, and geometric designs; the edges yellow |
| Provenance |
ff. 112r-v contains added readings for August and September starting imperfectly and ending incomplete, in 12th-century German hand.
Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, bought on 28 March 1840 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 |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
The shelfmark 'AII' and the title on the fore-edge in Latin in black ink and '3' on the top edge of the leaves. Matthew and Mark were presumably 'AI'. |
| Select bibliography |
List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), 1840, p. 11.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II Latin, pp. 333-4.
George F. Warner, Illuminated Manuscripts in The British Museum, Series I-IV (London: British Museum, 1903), III, pl. 6.
[George Warner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series I, (London: British Museum, 1907), pl. 18.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 105.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiten Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
Amédée Boinet, La miniature carolingienne: ses origines, son développement (Paris: Picard, 1913), pl. 107.
W. H. James Weale and Lawrence Taylor,Early Stamped Bookbindings in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1922), no. 234.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 1, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. XVIII.
[J. A. Herbert],Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 41.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: The British Museum, 1914-1930), V: Carolingian and French to Early 14th Century (1926), p. 8, pl. 5.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 1.
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. 141, pl. CLII.
Wilhelm Köhler, Review of Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 193 (1931), 321-36 (p. 326).
Theodor Klauser, Das ro¨mische capitulare evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner a¨ltesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen. 28 (Munster: Aschendorffschen, 1935), p. L no. 162*.
G. L. Micheli L’enluminure du haut moyen age et les influences irlandaises (Brussels: Editions de la connaissance, 1939), p.142, pl. 222.
Ernst Kitzinger, Early Medieval Art with Illustrations from the British Museum Collection (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1940), pl. 21.
Florentine Mütherich, 'Ottonian Art: Changing Aspects' in Studies in Western Art: Acts of the Twentieth International Congress of the History of Art, 4 vols (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), I: Romanesque and Gothic Art, 27-39 (pp. 31-32, 34).
Kunst und Kultur im Weserraum, 800-1600, 2 vols (Munster: Aschendorff, 1967), no. 159 [exhibition catalogue] [with additional bibliography].
Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), no. 34.
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. 33*.
Henry Mayr-Harting, Ottonian Book Illumination: An Historical Study, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1991), II, Books, p. 159, pl. 96.
Otto der Grosse: Magdeburg und Europa, ed. by Matthias Puhle, 2 vols (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2001), II: Katalog, pp. 176-77, pl. IV.7.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 38, fig. 25. |
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f. 1v
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f. 2
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f. 16
Coloured initials |
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f. 62v
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f. 62v
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f. 63
John |
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f. 63
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