Barberini Gospels

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Beginning of the Gospel of John

The Barberini Gospel Book is an illustrated manuscript from the late 8th century. Their place of origin is unknown. It contains the texts of the four Gospels of the New Testament , plus four full-page colored miniatures of the evangelists , an illuminated canon tablet and 15 decorated initials . The ornamental decorations are designed in the insular Irish-Anglo-Saxon style , the miniatures show strong Italian-Byzantine influences. The text was written by four scribes, two spelled from Northumbria and one from Mercia . In the colophon the words are ora pro Uuigbaldo ( Pray for Wigbald ) stock exchanges.

The manuscript was in the estate of Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1679 . It has been part of the Vatican Library in Rome since 1902 , signature Barberini Lat. 570.

literature

  • Nancy Bishop: The Barberini Gospels. University of Iowa, 2004 Dissertation
  • Michelle P. Brown: The Barberini Gospels: Context and Intertextual Relationships. In: Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honor of Éamonn Ó Carragáin. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, pp. 89-116, doi : 10.1484 / M.SEM-EB.3.3792
  • Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes (Eds.): Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-88342-9 , pp. 37ff.
  • Michael Lapidge (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-631-22492-0 , p. 53