Trier Gospels (Ms 16)
The Trier Gospel is an illustrated manuscript from the 8th century. It is in the library of the Trier Cathedral ( call number Ms 61/134). The manuscript probably originated in Echternach Abbey . It consists of 208 parchment sheets with 16 illuminated pages. It contains the texts of the four Gospels with explanations, a letter from Hieronymus and the concordance tables of Eusebius .
The design of the pages shows insular and Merovingian influences . The images show a cross with the four evangelist symbols, representations of three evangelists, a tetramorphic person (symbols of the four evangelists in one person) and two archangels.
The manuscript came to the Steinfeld monastery at an unknown time until it was secularized in 1802. Since 1891 at the latest, it has been in the Trier cathedral treasury.
literature
- Nancy Netzer: Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach (Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology 3), Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 9780521412551