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The Mac Durnan Gospels or Book of Mac Durnan (London, Lambeth Palace MS 1370) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book made in Ireland in the 9th or 10th century, a rather late example of Insular art. [1] Unusually, [citation needed] it was in Anglo-Saxon England soon after it was written, and is now in the collection of Lambeth Palace Library ...
The collection was established by Charles Freer (1854–1919), an industrialist from Detroit, Michigan and is held at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. All these manuscripts were purchased at the beginning of the 20th century in Egypt by Charles Freer.
It announces the intention of the city of Priene to change their calendar so that it begins on the birthday of Augustus, the first day of the good news. The Priene inscription is the most famous pre-Christian use of the concept of the gospel. Dated to 9 BCE, a few years before the birth of Jesus, the inscription demonstrates that the gospel was ...
The book was certainly at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury in the 10th century, when the first of several documents concerning the Abbey were copied into it. [7] In the late Middle Ages it was "kept not in the Library at Canterbury but actually lay on the altar; it belonged in other words, like a reliquary or the Cross, to Church ceremonial". [ 8 ]
Durham, Cathedral Library, MSS A. II. 16, ff. 1-23, 34-86, 102 and Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepysian MS 2981 (18) (Insular Gospel Book Fragment) Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitatbibliothek, Cod. 702 (Freiburg Gospel Book Fragment) Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Cod. Memb I. 18 (Gotha Gospel Book)
Nag Hammadi Codex II (designated by siglum CG II) is a papyrus codex with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts in Coptic (Sahidic dialect). [1] The manuscript has survived in nearly perfect condition. The codex is dated to the 4th century. It is the only complete manuscript from antiquity with the text of the Gospel of Thomas. [2]
The text occupies an area of 101 by 73 mm. There are gatherings of 16 or 20 folios. The oak board used as the back cover survives along with a vellum cover from another book that was used as a wrapper starting in the 17th century. The manuscript is missing several folios. The first 18 folios are missing from Matthew so the text begins at ...
Gold ink is used for the first page of each Gospel book, and all nomina sacra (special names/titles employed in early Christian writings and copies of the New Testament books) are also written in gold ink. [2]: 189 In Luke 8:21 it reads αυτον instead of αυτους; the reading αυτον is supported by 𝔓 75, and Minuscule 705. [4] In ...