Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Reims, France, probably at the Abbaye de St-Remy (the Abbey of Saint-Remi), ca. 870s.
Decoration: written in gold; 4 full-page Evangelist portrait miniatures; 4 illuminated incipit pages; 1 decorated canon tables.
Nees, Frankish Manuscripts, vol. 2, 294, sees formal similarities to works in ivories commissioned by or around Hincmar in the 870s, including the cover of the Pericopes of Henry II (Munich, Clm. 4452). Some of the decoration shares similarities with New Haven, Beinecke M 413, created in Reims probably in 873-877.
At the end of the volume, there are three flyleaves, originally from a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century lectionary, including readings for Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, Holy Sacraments, St. Remigius, dedication of a church, and Assumption. Front flyleaf and last flyleaf are from a book of homilies of Pope Leo, written in the fourteenth century.