Accession number:
MS M.319
Title:
Gospel Book
Created:
France, possibly Marchiennes, second half of 10th cent.
Binding:
17th-century red morocco over wooden boards; spine decorated with French pointillé tooling; previously with a late 10th-century English Christ in Majesty ivory plaque set on front cover; it was removed Nov. 13, 1973 and mounted separately as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.319a.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1905.
Description:
163 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 321 x 232 mm
Provenance:
An 18th-century Italian library (paper shelfmark plate C.VI.4.9 pasted on lower spine of binding, same plate as in Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.312, M.313, and M.320); Prince Massimo of Rome; Principe di Baucina at Palermo; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Brauer, Paris, June 30, 1905; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. gospel book; written and illuminated in northern France, possibly Marchiennes, second half of the 10th century.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 1 incipit page, 5 unfinished canon tables.
M.319 is unfinished. The five canon tables (on fols. 5r, 5v, 6r, 6v, and 7r) have not been completed.
Script:
Carolingian minuscule
Language:
Latin
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