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TM 66261 / LDAB 7511 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/66261

also known as Hereford Gospels

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Metadata

Date: second half 8th century AD: AD 750 - 799

Provenance: Britannia, near the Welsh border - United Kingdom (United KingdomThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - BritanniaThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Latin, drawing (paleography: insular majuscule)

Material: parchment

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (135 fol.); columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 33

Content (beta!): literary text, New Testament, Mattheus, Marcus, Lucas, Johannes evang.: gospel Mt Mc Lc Joh

Authors / works: Testamentum novum, Matthaeus (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Matthaeum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Marcus (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Marcum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Lucas (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Lucam (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Iohannes (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Iohannem (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, bible, gospel (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: with drawings (illumination for each gospel); not really vulgate, but distinct Irish tradition, partly based on vetus latina

More info: CLAEarlier Latin Manuscripts => 2046 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 944 links in TM

Publications

Scriptorium 56 (2002), p. 48-75 (Gameson, Richard - 2002) [default]

∙Lowe, CLA 2 157 (Lowe, Elias Avery - 1935 [1972])

∙McGurk, Latin gospel books from AD 400 to AD 800 15 (McGurk, Patrick - 1961) (= catalogue only)

Photo: CLA 2 157; New Pal. Soc. I, pl. 233; Scriptorium 56 (2002), pl. 1-8

Collections

→ Hereford, Cathedral Library P. I 2

formerly Hereford, cathedral

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    TM 66261

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