Gospel Book fragment

Accession number:

MS G.58

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Created:

Probably Italy, between 650 and 699.

Binding:

19th-century Middle Hill pasteboards.

Credit:

Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.

Description:

5 leaves (2 columns, 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 295 x 218 mm

Provenance:

Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 1329); Katharine Fenwick; Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; purchased in Jan. 1960 from H.P. Kraus, New York 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 leaves; written and illuminated probably in Italy, end of the 7th century.
Texts: Matthew 10:25-11:5; Mark 11:10-28, 13:33-14:15; John 6:13-34, 8:47-9:11.
Decoration: some initials heightened in silver.
Two other leaves from this manuscript are in the Beinecke Library, Yale University (M.481)--Cf. Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986.

Script:

uncial.

Language:

In Latin;

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