Accession number
MS M.91
Object title
Epistle lectionary and missal for Holy Saturday (MS M.91).
Created
St. Gall, Switzerland, ca. 880.
Binding
Formerly in red velvet by Gruel, decorated with a 13th-century Limoges champlevé enamel plaque; rebound in rose velvet by Marguerite Duprez Lahey, ca. 1932, in an olive morocco case lettered: Epistolaire - Xme siècle; enamel plaque preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Dept. of Drawings, as Enamel plaque no. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1905.
Description
92 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 255 x 136 mm
Provenance
Produced at Kloster St. Gallen, ca. 880; rebound there in the time of Abbot Beda Angehin, 1767-1796; Gruel and Engelmann Collection, no. 1; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in November 1905; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. epistle lectionary for the use of St. Gall; written and illuminated in St. Gall, Switzerland, ca. 880.
Texts: epistle lectionary (fol. 1-80); part of the Mass for Holy Saturday (fol. 81-92).
Decoration: 3 large illuminated interlace initials, 144 smaller initials.
Texts: epistle lectionary (fol. 1-80); part of the Mass for Holy Saturday (fol. 81-92).
Decoration: 3 large illuminated interlace initials, 144 smaller initials.
Script
Carolingian minuscule
Language
Latin
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Display Date
ca. 880.