The Lorsch Gospels
Identifier |
BOK.GER.AD810
BOK.NAM.AD1967
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Title |
The Lorsch Gospels
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Alternative Title |
Codex Aureus of Lorsch
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Description |
The Lorsch Gospels is a collection of the Four Gospels of the New Testament presented in calligraphy with illuminations and illustrations throughout. The original manuscript had sculpted ivory covers.
The Lorsch Gospels were named after the Abbey of Lorsch from whence they came. "Founded in 764 near Worms, the Abbey of Lorsch was among the wealthiest of Carolingian Imperial monasteries. Charlemagne himself was present at the consecration of the second Abbey Church of St. Nazarius in 774... The Abbey's oldest library catalog, compiled about 830, registers a magnificent manuscript which has been identified as the Lorsch Gospels ever since the manuscripts rediscovery: Evangelium scriptum cum auro pictum habens tabulas aburneas." (The Gospels were written with a table of gold). Today, the Lorsch gospels are separated into four parts in the Batthya-neum Library, Vatican Library, Vatican Museum, and in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Braunfels). |
Date Created |
810 AD
1967 AD
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Geographical Coverage |
Lorsch Abbey
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Temporal Coverage |
Carolingian
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Format |
Print
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Collecting Areas |
History of Writing Collection See all items with this value
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Language |
Latin
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Subject |
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Type |
Bible
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Bibliographic Citation |
The Lorsch Gospels. New York: George Braziller, 1967.
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