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Celtic Illuminated Manuscripts:

  • Book of Kells
  • Book of Armagh
  • Book of Cerne
  • Book of Deer
  • Book of Dimma
  • Book of Durrow
  • Book of Mulling
  • Cathach of St. Columba
  • Durham Gospels
  • Hereford Gospels
  • Lichfield Gospels
  • Lindisfarne Gospels
  • Romanesque / Protogothic manuscripts:

  • Martyrdoms of St. Peter & Paul (MS 28)
  • Passionale (MS Harley 624)
  • Gospels of Luke and John (MS Egerton 768)

    Library or archive where the manuscript kept
    London, British Library
    Catalogue Number (Shelfmark)
    MS Egerton 768
    Language
    Latin
    Script
    Caroline minuscule
    Century
    IX
    Origin
    Germany or France
    Official Foliation
    112
    Dimensions
    280 x 180

    Gospels of Luke and John, with prologue, table of chapters, and lections for the year (ff. 104v-111v) created in West Germany (medieval Saxony (Corvey?)) or in North France last quarter of the 9th century.

    Manuscript contains 4 full-page frames in gold, silver and colours, framing words or initials at the beginning of the Gospels (ff. 1v, 2, 62v, 63); decorated full-page initials in gold, silver, and colours with zoomorphic features at the beginning of the Gospels (ff. 2, 63); Chrysography; Initials in red or brown; Apparatus in brown and red.

     

    Gospels of Luke and John (MS Egerton 768) Illustrations

    Illustration 1
    Gospels of Luke and John (MS Egerton 768) - Full-page frame with interlace, and illuminated initial letters I and N with bird headsPage (Folio): 63

    Full-page frame with interlace, and illuminated initial letters I and N with bird heads

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