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Gospels of Judith of Flanders (MS M.709)

265. MS M.709, fol. 132v
266. MS M.709, fol. 133r
267. MS M.709, fol. 133v
268. MS M.709, fol. 135r
269. MS M.709, fol. 135v
270. MS M.709, fol. 134r
271. MS M.709, fol. 134v
272. MS M.709, fol. 136r
273. MS M.709, fol. 136v
274. MS M.709, fol. 137r
275. MS M.709, fol. 137v
276. MS M.709, fol. 138r

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.