Lothar Gospels
The Lothar Gospel (not to be confused with the Gospel from Kleve, also known as the "Gospel of Emperor Lothar" ) is a Carolingian illuminated manuscript that was created for Emperor Lothar I between 849 and 851 in the monastery of Saint-Martin de Tours . It is considered the artistic highlight of the Tours School.
The gospel book contains 221 parchment sheets , its format is 250 x 322 mm. The book decoration consists of six miniatures, nine framed incipit pages, twelve canon tables , 18 framed chapter lists and five initials . The text is entirely written in gold ink. Today the magnificent manuscript is in the Paris Bibliothèque nationale (Ms. lat. 266).
literature
- Florentine Mütherich , Joachim E. Gaehde: Carolingian book painting . Prestel, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-7913-0395-3 , pp. 82-87.
- Ingo F. Walther, Norbert Wolf: Masterpieces of book illumination . Köln et al., Taschen 2005, ISBN 3-8228-4747-X , p. 460.
Web links
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