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Gospels (MS M.333).

Accession number
MS M.333
Object title
Gospels (MS M.333).
Created
Saint-Omer, France, early 11th cent.
Binding
Natural levant morocco over English oak boards, gold- and blind-tooled by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1921, in 1/2 natural levant morocco chemise.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
96 leaves (2 columns, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 324 x 208 mm
Provenance
Executed for Abbot Odbert of Saint-Bertin, who is represented on fol. 84r presenting the volume to St. Bertin; Beauvais Cathedral; Comte le Caron de Troussures; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through De Tonnay from the Comte Marie Louis le Caron de Troussures in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated at the Monastery of Saint-Bertin, Saint-Omer, in the early 11th century.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 1 small miniature, 3 incipit pages.
The miniature of Evangelist Matthew is missing. (The text of the manuscript commences with Matthew 9:1.)
Script
Carolingian minuscule with occasional uncial capitals
Language
Latin
Century
Classification