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British Library, Egerton MS 609 is a Breton Gospel Book from the late or third quarter of the ninth century. It was created in France, though the exact location is unknown. The large decorative letters which form the beginning of each Gospel are similar to the letters found in Carolingian manuscripts, but the decoration of these letters is closer to that found in insular manuscripts, such as ...
The pages are 130 by 105 mm. 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.
A carpet page is a full page in an illuminated manuscript containing intricate, non-figurative, patterned designs. [1] They are a characteristic feature of Insular manuscripts, and typically placed at the beginning of a Gospel Book. Carpet pages are characterised by mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms.
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew.. The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London. [1]
The Gospel book was probably written on the Continent, possibly at Lobbes Abbey (Belgium), in the late 9th or early 10th century. [2] A few inscriptions entered into the manuscript reveal something of its subsequent history. It was presented by King Athelstan to Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, in the early 10th century, as a lengthy ...
This manuscript is the oldest surviving illustrated Latin (rather than Greek or Syriac) Gospel Book, [2] and one of the oldest European books in existence. Although the only surviving illuminations are two full-page miniatures , these are of great significance in art history as so few comparable images have survived.
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The beginning of the Gospel of Mark from the Book of Durrow. The Book of Durrow is an illuminated manuscript gospel book dated to c. 700 that contains the Vulgate Latin text of the four Gospels, with some Irish variations, and other matter, written in Insular script, and richly illustrated in the style of Insular art with four full-page Evangelist symbols, six carpet pages, and many decorated ...