Accession number
MS M.651
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.651).
Display Date
second quarter of 11th cent.
Created
Cologne, Germany, second quarter of 11th cent.
Binding
Red velvet over boards; on the upper cover have been applied 14th-century gilt plaques decorated in stamped relief; four walrus-ivory plaques depicting the Four Evangelists at the corners that have been dated to the late 12th century by Goldschmidt; mounted in bloodstones and crystal; at center a Crucifixion in walrus ivory with the Virgin holding a book and St. John writing in a codex, dated by Goldschmidt to ca. 1100.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1920.
Description
176 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 322 x 235 mm
Provenance
Said to have been owned by the collegiate church of the Holy Apostles in Cologne; purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps from Payne and Foss, ca. 1826; Phillipps Collection, no. 3007; purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from the Phillipps estate in 1920.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Cologne, Germany, in the second quarter of the 11th century, with some late medieval restoration.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 4 illuminated incipit pages, 12 illuminated canon table pages.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 4 illuminated incipit pages, 12 illuminated canon table pages.
Script
Caroline miniuscule
Language
Latin
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