Accession number
MS M.191
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.191).
Display Date
ca. 800-834.
Created
Tours, France, ca. 800-834.
Binding
English 19th-century maroon morocco tooled with a gold-star pattern; by Clyde; in marbled slipcase.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
238 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 200 mm
Provenance
Bernardus de Gutonibus (or Gatonibus), early owner, ca. 1400; San Lorenzo el Real del Escorial; Earl of Ashburnham (purchased from Libri); H. Yates Thompson; his sale (London, Sotheby's, May 14, 1902, no. 14) to Quaritch; Quaritch catalogue 217 (1902), no. 5; Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 5; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in France, in the monastery of St. Martin, Tours, between 800 and 834.
Begun under the Abbot Alcuin and completed under the the Abbot Fidugisus (Fredegis of Tours)--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 12 decorated canon tables, 8 incipits in gold on purple bands or purple on gold bands.
Begun under the Abbot Alcuin and completed under the the Abbot Fidugisus (Fredegis of Tours)--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 12 decorated canon tables, 8 incipits in gold on purple bands or purple on gold bands.
Script
rustic, uncial, half uncial, and Tours minuscule
Language
Latin
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