Accession number
MS M.781
Object title
Saint Peter Gospels (MS M.781).
Created
Salzburg, Austria, second quarter 11th cent.
Binding
Heavy oak boards covered with 15th century sheepskin; 2 modern leather straps with silver clasps; in a brown marbled-paper-covered box case.
Credit line
Purchased on the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund, 1933.
Description
227 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 343 x 266 mm
Provenance
Executed at and for St. Peter in Salzburg (where it was MS A.X.6; ex-libris of monastery on fol. 227v); it remained at the monastery until purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund in 1933.
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria), during the second quarter of the eleventh century.
Decoration: 7 full-page and 16 smaller miniatures; 4 decorated incipit pages; and 18 canon tables.
Textiles: protective curtains over some of the miniatures.
Decoration: 7 full-page and 16 smaller miniatures; 4 decorated incipit pages; and 18 canon tables.
Textiles: protective curtains over some of the miniatures.
Contents
fols. 1r-16v: Comes -- fol. 17r: Preface -- fol. 18v: Letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus -- fols. 20r-22v: Capitula of Matthew -- fols. 23r-25v: Blank -- fols. 26r-34v: Canon tables -- fols. 35r-227r: Gospels -- fol. 227v: Privileges of St. Peter in Salzburg.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
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