Accession number
MS M.860
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.860).
Display Date
between 857 and 862.
Created
Tours, France, between 857 and 862.
Binding
Previously in brown calf with two 18th-century Dutch silver clasps with the Agnus Dei; rebound in 20th-century full red velvet, clasps removed.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1952.
Description
206 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 293 x 229 mm
Provenance
Executed at the monastery of St. Martin at Tours between 857 and 862; Lucien Delamarre; his sale (Paris, Théophile Belin, 8 May 1909, lot 1) to Henry Yates Thompson through Sotheby's; purchased by A. Chester Beatty (his W ms. 8 [alternatively W ms. 3; 109]) in 1919 through Quaritch, £1,775; purchased through Maggs from Mrs. Edith Beatty with the assistance of the Fellows in 1952.
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written and illuminated in Tours, France, in the monastery of St. Martin, between 857 and 862.
Written mainly in Carolingian minuscules, with Roman capitals, rustic capitals, uncial and half-uncial used as decorative and articulating devices.
Decoration: 6 decorated canon tables, 5 framed decorative title pages, 4 incipits with large illuminated initials, 7 smaller ornamental letters.
Written mainly in Carolingian minuscules, with Roman capitals, rustic capitals, uncial and half-uncial used as decorative and articulating devices.
Decoration: 6 decorated canon tables, 5 framed decorative title pages, 4 incipits with large illuminated initials, 7 smaller ornamental letters.
Script
Caroline minuscule
Language
Latin
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