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Gospels of Judith of Flanders (MS M.709)

121. MS M.709, fol. 60v
122. MS M.709, fol. 61r
123. MS M.709, fol. 61v
124. MS M.709, fol. 62r
125. MS M.709, fol. 62v
126. MS M.709, fol. 63r
127. MS M.709, fol. 63v
128. MS M.709, fol. 64r
129. MS M.709, fol. 64v
130. MS M.709, fol. 65r
131. MS M.709, fol. 65v
132. MS M.709, fol. 66r

While Judith was in England, she and her first husband, Tostig, earl of Northumbria, made donations to various religious establishments, including a fine crucifix for Durham Cathedral. She also commissioned several Gospel Books, which she later took with her in exile. They were evidently not yet bound, as these silver-gilt repoussé figures of Christ in Majesty and symbols of the four evangelists are probably Continental work of the last third of the eleventh century. Many of the gems, especially those with foil behind them, are nineteenth-century replacements added after the manuscript was acquired by the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall.