Augustine Gospels

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Augustine Gospels

The St. Augustine Gospel is a 6th century manuscript from Italy . It is the oldest surviving gospel book in Latin and is now in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge under the call number 286 .

The gospel book consists of 273 pages, is 252 mm × 196 mm and is incomplete. At the beginning of the Gospel of Luke , a depiction of the Evangelist Luke is shown on a separate page , and miniatures of the Passion of Christ on another page . There are no such representations for the other Gospels.

The manuscript originated in Italy in the late 6th century, the exact place of origin is unknown. Probably soon afterwards it came to England with the mission of Roman monks around Augustine . It must have been in Canterbury by the 11th century at the latest. The oldest written mention of the manuscript is from the 16th century.

literature

  • Gertrud Schiller : Iconography of Christian Art. Volume 2, The Passion of Jesus Christ. , Gütersloh 1983, ISBN 3-579-04136-3 (English Iconography of Christian Art , Vol. II, Lund Humphries, London 1972, ISBN 0-85331-324-5 )
  • Kurt Weitzmann : Late Antiquity and Early Christian Illumination. Munich 1977 (English Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination . Chatto & Windus, London / New York 1977)

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