Xanten Gospels
The Xanten Gospel is an illustrated Carolingian manuscript from the early 9th century. It contains the four Gospels of the New Testament on 221 parchment sheets in the format 22 cm × 26.5 cm , as well as two preserved full-page colored miniatures and 12 illuminated canon tables . One miniature shows Christ in a halo surrounded by the four evangelists and their symbols, the other shows the evangelist Matthew .
The manuscript was created in the vicinity of the court of Charlemagne, possibly in Aachen by the so-called group of the Vienna Coronation Gospels . The miniatures show clear Byzantine influences .
In the 10th or 11th centuries, glosses in Latin and Old High German were added to the manuscript. The manuscript was for a time in St. Viktor's Cathedral in Xanten . At the beginning of the 19th century she came to Maastricht and in 1842 to Leuven . Today it is in the Royal Library in Brussels , call number Ms. 18723.
literature
- Wilhelm Koehler : The Carolingian miniatures . Vol. 3: The group of the Vienna Coronation Gospels. German publishing house for art history, Berlin 1960
Web links
- Facsimile and information (French)
Remarks
- ↑ In addition to the Vienna Coronation Gospels, the group also created the Aachen Treasury Gospels and another Aachen Gospel.