Accession number
MS M.862
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.862).
Display Date
ca. 855-865.
Created
France, probably St. Amand, ca. 855-865.
Binding
White pigskin with interlace circular stamp on covers, 2 leather thongs, by W.H. Smith and Son.
Credit line
Purchased from Mrs. A. Chester Beatty, 1952.
Description
193 leaves (1 column, 26 and 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 190 mm
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (purchased from Thomas Payne II), recorded twice as MS 2165 and MS 21787; purchased privately from the Phillipps Collection by A. Chester Beatty (his W ms. 9 [alternatively W ms. 4; 87]), 17 December 1920, £1,500; purchased through Maggs from Mrs. Edith Beatty in 1952 from the Belle da Costa Greene Fund.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Northern France, probably St. Amand, ca. 855-865.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures (Evangelist portraits), 12 decorated canon tables, 4 decorated incipit pages, 6 framed text pages.
Artist: the miniatures derive from the same prototype as the Gospels of Francis II (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Lat. 257) and St. Petersburg, Hermitage, MS Q.V.I.26.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures (Evangelist portraits), 12 decorated canon tables, 4 decorated incipit pages, 6 framed text pages.
Artist: the miniatures derive from the same prototype as the Gospels of Francis II (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Lat. 257) and St. Petersburg, Hermitage, MS Q.V.I.26.
Script
Caroline minuscule
Language
Latin
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