Accession number:
MS M.781
Title:
Gospel Book
Created:
Salzburg, Austria, second quarter 11th cent.
Binding:
Heavy oak boards covered with 15th century sheepskin; 2 modern leather straps with silver clasps; in a brown marbled-paper-covered box case.
Credit:
Purchased on the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund, 1933.
Description:
227 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 343 x 266 mm
Provenance:
Executed at and for St. Peter in Salzburg (where it was MS A.X.6; ex-libris of monastery on fol. 227v); it remained at the monastery until purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund in 1933.
Notes:
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria), during the second quarter of the eleventh century.
Decoration: 7 full-page and 16 smaller miniatures; 4 decorated incipit pages; and 18 canon tables.
Textiles: protective curtains over some of the miniatures.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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