Gospels of Saint-Riquier
The Gospels of Saint-Riquier , also called Gospels from Centula or Gospels in Abbeville , is a Carolingian illuminated manuscript . It was created during Charlemagne's lifetime , probably shortly before 800, at his court school in the Aachen royal palace and is one of the most outstanding examples of early Carolingian book illumination .
The gospel book consists of 198 purple parchment sheets in the format 355 x 247 mm . The text pages are written on with gold ink; the texts of the four Gospels ( fol. 1–188) are in uncial script , the capitula evangeliorum at the end (fol. 189 v –198 r ) in lower case . In addition to the full-page portraits of the four evangelists, Matthew (fol. 17 v ), Mark (fol. 66 v ), Lukas (fol. 101 v ) and Johannes (fol. 153 v ), the artfully decorated canon tables (fol. 10 r –16 v ) as well as richly decorated initials as large as a page .
The manuscript was intended as a gift for Angilbert († 814), the lay abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Riquier and lover of Charlemagne's daughter Bertha . Angilbert donated the gospel book together with numerous other manuscripts to the library of his monastery, where it is recorded in an inventory catalog in 831. Today the manuscript is kept in nearby Abbeville ( Bibliothèque Municipale , Ms. 4).
The Gospels, whose text and design are closely related to the so-called Coronation Gospels, which were also created at the Aachen court school , influenced the West Franconian scriptories of the 9th century in particular .
literature
- Bernhard Bischoff : Catalog of the mainland manuscripts of the ninth century (with the exception of the wisigothic). Part 1: Aachen-Lambach. Edited from the estate by Birgit Ebersperger. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998 (Publications of the Commission for the Editing of Medieval Library Catalogs in Germany and Switzerland. Bavarian Academy of Sciences), ISBN 3-447-03196-4 , p. 8 No. 8.
- Elias Avery Lowe (Ed.): Codices Latini Antiquiores . A palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the 9th century. Volume VI: France. Abbeville – Valenciennes , Oxford 1953, no. 704.
- Wilhelm Koehler: The Carolingian miniatures. Volume 2: The court school of Charlemagne. Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1930, pp. 49–55, panels 33–41.
- Patrick McGurk: Latin Gospel Books from AD 400 to AD 800. Erasme, Paris / Brussels 1961 (= Les Publications de Scriptorium , Volume 5), pp. 49-50.
Remarks
- ^ Cf. Bernhard Bischoff : The court library under Ludwig the Pious. In: Ders., Medieval Studies. Selected essays on literary studies and literary history. Volume 3, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 171-186, here p. 177.
- ↑ Cf. Bonifatius Fischer: The New Testament in Latin. The current state of its research and its significance for the history of the Greek text. In: Kurt Aland , Matthew Black (eds.): The Ancient Translations of the New Testament, the Church Fathers Quotes, and Lectionaries. The current state of their research and their significance for the history of the Greek text. De Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-004121-9 , pp. 1–92, here p. 56 note 184.
- ↑ Cf. Fabrizio Crivello: Les Evangiles de Saint-Denis et l'influence de l'École de la cour de Charlemagne sur les scriptoria de Francie occidentale. In: Marie-Pierre Lafitte, Jean-Pierre Caillet (eds.): Les manuscrits carolingiens. Actes du colloque de Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, le 4 May 2007. Brepols, Turnhout 2009 (Bibliologia, Volume 27), ISBN 978-2-503-52598-3 , pp. 45-88, here pp. 47, 51 -56 and 81.
