Thomas Gospels

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As Thomas Gospels is an illuminated manuscript from the monastery Echternach referred that emerged in the second half of the eighth century.

The artistic equipment of the Gospel includes canon tables , miniatures and initials , which are in the tradition of island illumination . The illuminations as well as the writing prove that there was a collaboration between continental and island scribes and illuminators in Echternach. The insular and the continental forms stand side by side. The styles did not merge.

The manuscript is named after an insular scribe who mentions himself in two places. Today the manuscript is kept in the Trier cathedral library (Cod. 61 olim 134).

literature

  • Christoph Stiegemann, Matthias Wemhoff (Ed.): 799. Art and culture of the Carolingian era . Volume 2. von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2460-X , (exhibition catalog, Paderborn, July 23 - November 1, 1999), pp. 465–481, on the Thomas Gospel: pp. 468–470.