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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 Harley Golden Gospels, British Library, Harley MS 2788, is a Carolingian illuminated manuscript Gospel book produced in about 800–825, probably in Aachen, Germany. [1] It is one of the manuscripts attributed to the " Ada School ", which is named after the Ada Gospels .
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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 developers of Carolingian illumination were the so-called "court school of Charlemagne" at the Palace of Aachen, which created the manuscripts of the "Ada School ." Contemporary was the "Palace School" which was probably based in the same place, but whose artists were from Byzantium or Byzantine Italy .
A full page miniature (fol. 14v) and twelve pages of canon tables as a concordance (fol. 8v – 14r) precede the gospel texts. These are surrounded by architectural decoration, which reflects a late antique model from around AD 400 and, uniquely in all Carolingian illumination, depicts Classical entablatures.
The Eusebian Canons are written in Carolingian minuscule (fol. 189–198). The book is illuminated in the Carolingian Style with large decorated initials throughout the text. The design is similar to the Vienna Coronation Gospels. [2] The Portraits of the Evangelists are before Their respective gospel. [3]