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Gospel book (MS M.808).

Accession number
MS M.808
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.808).
Created
Austria, probably in the monastery of Seitenstetten, between 1225 and 1275.
Binding
Austrian, oak boards, covered with 18th-century rose velvet; 2 leather thongs with metal clasps; 11th century psalter leaf pasted inside front cover.
Credit line
Purchased in 1940.
Description
240 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 305 x 204 mm
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Gerungus of Weitrach for Abbot Heinricus I (1247-1250) of Seitenstetten; remained at Seittenstetten until 1927, when purchased by A. Chester Beatty (his W ms. 47 [alternatively W ms. 27A; 136]) through Jacques Rosenthal of Munich; Beatty sale (London, Sotheby's, 9 May 1933, lot 47, £1,150); William Randolph Hearst; purchased from the Brummer Gallery in 1940.
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Austria, probably in the monastery of Seitenstetten, in the middle of the 13th century.
Colophon on fol. 238 reads: Qui, me. finivit. Hei. quam. bene. scribere scivit.
Decoration: 6 full-page and 2 smaller miniatures; 4 historiated initials; and 10 canon tables.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification