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The Aachen Gospels (German: Schatzkammer-Evangeliar "Treasury Gospels", or Karolingisches Evangeliar "Carolingian Gospels") are a Carolingian illuminated manuscript which was created at the beginning of the ninth century by a member of the Ada School.
Hence, the iconography of Gospel books elaborated on the relationship between their physical grandeur and spiritual content. [32] The manuscript is a key component in the reform of handwriting as it is the first to contain the new Carolingian minuscule script which became a fundamental theme in Carolingian book production thereafter. [33]
Charlemagne Gospels [1] c.800 Aachen, around the Court School of Charlemagne Evangeliary Munich, Universitätsbibliothek München , Cim. 1 (= 2° Cod. ms. 29) [2] Hiltfred Gospels [3] 801/825 France Evangeliary Cologne, Cologne Diocesan Library , Dom Hs. 13 [4] Aachen Gospels or Schatzkammer Gospels or Carolingian Gospels
The making of the Ebbo Gospels was during the Carolingian Renaissance, when Charlemagne was crowned the Holy Roman emperor by the Pope in the year 800. [4] Charlemagne had the goal of incorporating more Christian and Roman ideology within Europe as he was inspired by Constantine, who ruled c. 306-33, and made it more acceptable to practice Christianity.
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The Ada Gospels (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Codex 22) is a late eighth century or early ninth century Carolingian gospel book in the Stadtbibliothek, Trier, Germany. The manuscript contains a dedication to Charlemagne's sister Ada, from where it gets its name. The manuscript is written on vellum in Carolingian minuscule. It measures 14.5 by 9.625 ...
This Carolingian Gospel Book is written in a fine Carolingian minuscule.. British Library, Add MS 11848 is an illuminated Carolingian Latin Gospel Book produced at Tours.It contains the Vulgate translation of the four Gospels written on vellum in Carolingian minuscule with Square and Rustic Capitals and Uncials as display scripts.
The text is the "Four Gospels preceded by the Epistle of S. Jerome: Ad Damasum, Canon Tables and Prefaces, followed by a Capitulary", written and illuminated in "a not particularly elegant" Carolingian minuscule, the miniatures perhaps or probably by Folchard of St Gall, who portrayed himself in the Folchard Psalter. The style of illumination ...