Accession number
MS M.91
Object title
Epistle lectionary and missal for Holy Saturday (MS M.91).
Display Date
ca. 880.
Created
St. Gall, Switzerland, ca. 880.
Binding
Formerly in red velvet by Gruel, decorated with a 13th-century Limoges champlevé enamel plaque; rebound in rose velvet by Marguerite Duprez Lahey, ca. 1932, in an olive morocco case lettered: Epistolaire - Xme siècle; enamel plaque preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Dept. of Drawings, as Enamel plaque no. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1905.
Description
92 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 255 x 136 mm
Provenance
Produced at Kloster St. Gallen, ca. 880; rebound there in the time of Abbot Beda Angehin, 1767-1796; Gruel and Engelmann Collection, no. 1; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in November 1905; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. epistle lectionary for the use of St. Gall; written and illuminated in St. Gall, Switzerland, ca. 880.
Texts: epistle lectionary (fol. 1-80); part of the Mass for Holy Saturday (fol. 81-92).
Decoration: 3 large illuminated interlace initials, 144 smaller initials.
Texts: epistle lectionary (fol. 1-80); part of the Mass for Holy Saturday (fol. 81-92).
Decoration: 3 large illuminated interlace initials, 144 smaller initials.
Script
Carolingian minuscule
Language
Latin
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