Gospel Book fragment
Accession number:
MS G.26
Title:
Gospel Book fragment
Created:
England, 8th century.
Credit:
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 England, 8th century.
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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