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The Liuthar Gospels (also Gospels of Otto III [1] or Ottonian Gospels) are a work of Ottonian illumination which are counted among the masterpieces of the period known as the Ottonian Renaissance. The manuscript, named after a monk called Liuthar, was probably created around the year 1000 at the order of Otto III at the Abbey of Reichenau and ...
Gospel Book of Otto III. The cover of the book is a tribute to its contents; it is jeweled with a centerpiece consisting of a Byzantine ivory inlay of the Dormition of the Virgin. The inlay was placed on the cover rather than inside the manuscript because the text of the four gospels does not include reference to the Virgin Mary's death. [4]
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.
"Roma", "Gallia", "Germania" and "Sclavinia" pay homage to Otto III, from the Munich Gospels of Otto III, one of the "Liuthar group". Following late Carolingian styles, "presentation portraits" of the patrons of manuscripts are very prominent in Ottonian art, [5] and much Ottonian art reflected the dynasty's desire to establish visually a link to the Christian rulers of Late Antiquity, such as ...
The Aachen Gospels may refer to either of two illuminated manuscript gospel books: The Aachen Gospels (Ada School) , a masterpiece of Carolingian art made in the 9th-century The Liuthar Gospels , a masterpiece of Ottonian art made about 973 at Reichenau
The Liuthar Gospels, commissioned by Otto III around 1000, shows the emperor being crowned by God. Ernst Kantorowicz suggests that the scroll, carried by the four evangelists and dividing the monarch's head from his body, represents the ruler's "two bodies" – his mortal body and his eternal authority granted by the divine. [54] [55]
"Sei uns willkommen, Herre Christ" is the earliest surviving Christmas hymn in the German language. [1] It originated as a leise and its melody is first recorded as a fragment in the Liuthar Gospels at Aachen Cathedral Treasury, probably dating to the 14th century.
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