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unusual facts about Gospel book



Book of Dimma

The Book of Dimma (Dublin, Trinity College, MS.A.IV.23) is an 8th-century Irish pocket Gospel Book originally from the Abbey of Roscrea, founded by St. Cronan in the County Tipperary, Ireland.

Codex Aureus of Echternach

The Codex Aureus of Echternach (Codex aureus Epternacensis) (Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 156142) is an 11th-century illuminated Gospel Book, created in the approximate period 1030 and 1050.

Durham Gospels

The Durham Gospels is a very incomplete late 7th century insular Gospel Book, now kept in the Durham Cathedral Dean and Chapter Library (MS A.II.17).

London Canon Tables

The London Canon Tables (British Library, Add. MS 5111) is a Byzantine illuminated Gospel Book fragment on vellum from the 6th or 7th century.

Peronet Lamy

In 1436 Lamy completed a Nativity scene for the frontispiece of a Gospel book commissioned by Pietro Donato; the rest of the illuminations in this work were done by Johannes de Monterchio.

Rossano Gospels

The Rossano Gospels, designated by 042 or Σ (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 18 (Soden), at the cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire.

Schuttern Abbey

In 817 a Gospel Book (the Schuttern Gospels, now in the British Museum in London), commissioned by the then Abbot Bertrich and written by the deacon Luithar witnesses among other works to the existence of a writing school of high quality in the abbey.

Schuttern Gospels

The Schuttern Gospels (British Library, Add. MS 47673) is an early 9th century illuminated Gospel Book that was produced at Schuttern Abbey in Baden.

Stockholm Codex Aureus

The Stockholm Codex Aureus (Stockholm, Swedish Royal Library, MS A. 35, also known as the "Codex Aureus of Canterbury") is a Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury, whose decoration combines Insular and Italian elements.


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Master of Saint Francis

This was largely based on the later works of Giunta Pisano but also shows the influence of such Umbrian artists as Rainaldetto di Ranuccio, Simeone and Machilone and of contemporary manuscript illumination, for example the Gospel Book of Giovanni da Gaibena (Padua, Bib. Capitolare).