Hillinus Codex

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Canon Hillinus gives the codex to St. Peter.

The Hillinus Codex , also Hillinus Gospel , is a Gospel , which was produced between 1010 and 1020. Written in Cologne for the Cologne canon Hillinus, it is a work in the style of the Reichenau school , possibly created in the Seeon writing workshop by the Reichenau monks Purchardus and Chuonradus, whose names can be found as a scribe entry in the codex.

The images, such as the Hildebold Cathedral on the famous dedication picture, are shaped by local aspects and are unusually realistic for the Ottonian period. The Codex, stored in the Cologne Diocesan and Cathedral Library as Codex 12 , comprises 211 parchment sheets and measures 366 × 260 mm.

literature

  • Holger Simon : Architectural representations in Ottonian book illumination. The Old Cologne Cathedral in the Hillinus Codex . In: Stefanie Lieb (Ed.): Style and Form (Festschrift Binding), Darmstadt 2001, pp. 32–44. ( PDF version at CEEC )
  • Anton von Euw : The Hillinus Codex of the Cologne Cathedral Library and the Reichenauer book art. In: Heinz Finger (Ed.): Medieval manuscripts from the Cologne Cathedral Library. Second symposium of the Cologne Diocesan and Cathedral Library on the cathedral manuscripts (December 1 to 2, 2006) (= Libelli Rhenani. Vol. 24). Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library , Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-939160-17-5 , pp. 251-300.

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