Gumbertus Bible

Gumbertus Bible fol. 5v, work of creation

Gumbertus Bible, fol. 95v, scenes from the life of Absalon

The Gumbertus Bible is an illustrated medieval manuscript from the late 12th century. It is one of the impressive giant Bibles that contain the complete Bible text in one volume (" Pandect "). It measures 67 × 46 cm and has 394 parchment leaves with splendid illustrations, including eleven picture pages. It is therefore one of the most important works of art in Romanesque book art .

history

The place of origin of the manuscript, which was made around 1180 to 1185, is controversial. For the price of 12 talents, it was bought with financial support from the citizens of Ansbach for the Gumbertusstift in Ansbach, at the latest in 1195, the year of death of the dean Gotebold, who is mentioned in the leading place in the handwritten dedication. After the abbey was dissolved, the codex was transferred to the consistorial library donated by Margrave Georg Friedrich in 1607 , which was incorporated into the Ansbach Palace Library in 1733 . In 1805 it came from there with other Ansbach codices to the University Library Erlangen , where it is kept under the signature Ms. 1 (manuscript 1).

From May 1 to July 27, 2014, the exhibition was dedicated to The Gumbertus Bible. Golden imagery of Romanesque manuscript in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

literature

• Hans Fischer : The Latin parchment manuscripts of the University Library Erlangen. Volume 1, Erlangen 1928, pp. 1-3 ( digitized on manuscripta-mediaevalia.de).
• Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer: The Gumbertus Bible. Codex 1 of the University Library Erlangen . Universitäts-Verlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-11-5 .
• Anna Pawlik, Michele C. Ferrari (Ed.): The Gumbertus Bible. Golden imagery of the Romanesque (catalog for the exhibition in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 1 to July 27, 2014). Verlag des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-936688-85-6 (pictures from the cover and the full-page miniatures of the Gumbertus Bible, pp. 83–96).

Web links

Commons : Gumbertusbibel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biblia sacra - UER MS 1. In: bib-bvb.de. Digital collections of the University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg, accessed on May 29, 2020 (digitized version of the Gumbertus Bible). 
• Catalog entry of the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library
• Gumbertus Bible. The Ansbach Giant Bible, a masterpiece of medieval book art. In: fau.de. Erlangen Chair for Medieval and Modern Latin Philology, accessed on May 29, 2020 (research project on the Gumbertus Bible with extensive bibliography). 
• The GUMBERTUSBIBEL in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. In: kunstnuernberg.de. May 13, 2014, accessed May 29, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pawlik / Ferrari 2014, pp. 11–12.
2. ↑ Pawlik / Ferrari 2014, p. 103.
3. ↑ The Gumbertus Bible. Golden imagery of the Romanesque. In: gnm.de. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, accessed on May 29, 2020 .