Accession number:
MS M.808
Title:
Gospel book
Created:
Austria, probably in the monastery of Seitenstetten, between 1225 and 1275.
Binding:
Austrian, oak boards, covered with 18th-century rose velvet; 2 leather thongs with metal clasps; 11th century psalter leaf pasted inside front cover.
Credit:
Purchased in 1940.
Description:
240 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 305 x 204 mm
Provenance:
Probably commissioned by Gerungus of Weitrach for Abbot Heinricus I (1247-1250) of Seitenstetten; remained in library of Seittenstetten until 1927, when purchased by A. Chester Beatty through J. Rosenthal of Munich; purchased in 1930 by William Randolph Hearst; purchased from the Brummer Gallery in 1940.
Notes:
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Austria, probably in the monastery of Seitenstetten, in the middle of the 13th century.
Colophon on fol. 238 reads: Qui, me. finivit. Hei. quam. bene. scribere scivit.
Decoration: 6 full-page and 2 smaller miniatures; 4 historiated initials; and 10 canon tables.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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