Gospel Book

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Accession number: 
MS M.728
Title: 
Gospel Book
Created: 
Reims, France, ca. 860.
Binding: 
French 18th-century red morocco gilt with the arms of the Abbey of Saint-Remi on spine. Medieval wood boards possibly still present. Outsides of boards re-covered with panels of 19th-century russet sheepskin, 19th-century clasps at fore-edge; in blue buckram clamshell box (formerly in tan half-case).
Credit: 
Purchased in 1927.
Description: 
192 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 303 x 258 mm
Provenance: 
Executed in Reims during the time of Archbishop Hincmar (845-882); rebound in the 18th century and arms of the Abbaye de St-Remy stamped on back; at the monastery at least until 1790, when the Revolutionary authorities removed 248 manuscripts; sale of the bookseller Savoye (Paris, May 28, 1828, lot 11); J.L. Bourdillon (catalogue, 1830, p. 2-3, no. 4); purchased by Robert S. Holford from Payne and Foss; purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library from the Holford estate in Nov. 1927.
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Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Reims, France, probably at the Abbaye de St-Remy (the Abbey of Saint-Remi), ca. 860.
Decoration: written in gold; 4 full-page Evangelist portrait miniatures; 4 illuminated incipit pages; 1 decorated canon tables.

Script: 
Caroline minuscule
Language: 
Latin
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