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Gospel Book fragment (MS G.58).

Accession number
MS G.58
Object title
Gospel Book fragment (MS G.58).
Display Date
between 650 and 699.
Created
Probably Italy, between 650 and 699.
Binding
19th-century Middle Hill pasteboards.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
5 leaves (2 columns, 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 295 x 218 mm
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 1329); Katharine Fenwick; Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; purchased in Jan. 1960 from H.P. Kraus, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. Gospel Book single leaves; written and illuminated probably in Italy, end of the 7th century.
Texts: Matthew 10:25-11:5; Mark 11:10-28, 13:33-14:15; John 6:13-34, 8:47-9:11.
Decoration: some initials heightened in silver.
Two other leaves from this manuscript are in the Beinecke Library, Yale University (M.481)--Cf. Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986.
Script
uncial.
Language
In Latin;
Century
Classification