Sacramentary of Charlemagne
The Sacramentary of Charles the Bald is a Carolingian illuminated manuscript that has only survived as an incomplete fragment , which was created around 870 in the court school of Charles the Bald . Where the court school is to be located after the destruction of the St. Martin monastery in 853 is a matter of dispute.
The sacramentary consists of 10 sheets of parchment , its size is 270 x 210 mm. The few sheets are unusually richly decorated with two initial pages and five full-page miniatures. The text pages are lavishly framed, and the text, some of which is written in gold ink, is in some cases set on purple fields .
In 1732 the manuscript came from the estate of Jean-Baptiste Colbert to the royal library in Paris. Today the manuscript is in the Bibliothèque nationale (Ms. lat. 1141).
gallery
fol. 3r: Gregory the Great
fol. 6v: Te igitur and Christ on the cross
literature
- Florentine Mütherich , Joachim E. Gaehde: Carolingian book painting . Prestel Verlag , Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7913-0395-3 , pp. 96-101.
- Wilhelm Koehler , Florentine Mütherich: The Carolingian miniatures. Volume 5: The court school of Charles the Bald . Berlin 1982, pp. 165-174, plates 41-44.