Accession number
MS G.26
Object title
Gospel Book single leaf (MS G.26).
Display Date
8th century.
Created
Germany, 8th century.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
1 leaf (1 column, 26 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 276 x 189 mm
Provenance
Joseph Sattler; Max Kammerer, Wartenberg (Bavaria); purchased in Nov. 1954 from Arthur Rau, Paris for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. Gospel Book single leaf, written and decorated in Germany, 8th century.
One of 18 leaves from a dispersed manuscript. For attribution, Bischoff suggests Main region, late 8th / early 9th century. For sister leaves, see Bischoff 2004, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, Teil II, n. 3373.
Text: Luke 23:29-24:8.
Decoration: small initials, mostly with pale yellow and blue filling.
Matted.
One of 18 leaves from a dispersed manuscript. For attribution, Bischoff suggests Main region, late 8th / early 9th century. For sister leaves, see Bischoff 2004, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, Teil II, n. 3373.
Text: Luke 23:29-24:8.
Decoration: small initials, mostly with pale yellow and blue filling.
Matted.
Script
insular minuscule.
Language
In Latin;
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