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Manuscript
Reichenau Gospels
Abstract
This Gospel Book is believed to come from the Abbey of Reichenau, on Lake Constance, on the basis of its script and illumination. The decoration of the manuscript places it in the so-called Luithar school of Reichenau. Its ornamental motifs compare very closely with those in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 4453, and its palette is nearly identical to that in the Reichenau manuscripts of the Bamberg Cathedral Treasury. Gold uncials begin each paragraph as well as the introductory words of each chapter; they are a distinct mark of Reichenau manufacture. The manuscript's text is written in Caroline minuscule. It is paleographically related to Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Mss. Bibl. 76 and Bibl. 22, and also Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 4454. As a whole, it is an excellent example of Ottonian book illumination.
Date
Middle of the 11th century CE
Origin
Reichenau Abbey, Lake Constance, Germany
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Support material
Parchment
Thick, white, unpolished parchment
Extent
Foliation: i+202
Three sets of numbers present: nineteenth-century ink over pencil pagination in upper right corners, foliation in upper centers, and modern pencil foliation in upper right corners (followed here)
Collation
Formula: i, 1(8), 2(6), 3-8(8), 9(4), 10-13(8), 14(2), 15(6), 16-21(8), 22(6), 23-27(8), 28(2)
Catchwords: None
Signatures: Numbered consecutively (i-xxviii) on versos, bottom center; may not be contemporary with original manuscript
Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 15(3), 23(4), 31(5), 39(6), 47(7), 55(8), 63(9), 67(10), 75(11), 83(12), 91(13), 99(14), 101(15), 107(16), 115(17), 123(18), 131(19), 139(20), 147(21), 155(22), 161(23), 169(24), 177(25), 185(26), 193(27), 201(28)
Dimensions
16.6 cm wide by 23.1 cm high
Written surface
fols. 1r - 202v: 10.2 cm wide by 15.0 cm high
fols. 1r - 8v: 11.5 cm wide by 17.0 cm high
Layout
fols. 1r - 202v:Contents:
fols. 1r - 202v:Decoration:
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fol. 2v:
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fol. 3v:
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fol. 4v:
fol. 5r:
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fol. 9v:
fol. 15v:
fol. 67v:
fol. 107v:
fol. 161v:
Binding
The binding is not original.
Cream parchment over pasteboard, inscribed on spine EVANGELIAIRE Xe SIECLE; book rebound after 1913 by Gruel, as the dimensions are smaller than those in the 1908 Brooke catalog and do not match the 1913 Sotheby's catalog description as "newly bound in niger morocco, covered with rich gilt interlaced circles and dotted ornaments by K[atherine]. A[dams].; some remnants of Katherine Adams' binding remain (endbands and four cords); front cover guard and flyleaf not original but have been with the manuscript for some time as evinced by the leaf numbering and the note in a nineteenth-century German hand
Provenance
Abbey of Reichenau, Lake Constance, Germany, mid eleventh century
German library, nineteenth century (front flyleaf contains a German inscription written in a nineteenth-century hand that assigns the manuscript the number 203)
Sir Thomas Brooke, Armitage Bridge House near Huddersfield, Yorkshire; acquired from the dealer G. I. Ellis after 1854
Ingraham Brooke, Sotheby's March 7, 1913, lot 8
Leon Gruel, after 1913 (bookplate on front pastedown)
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel before 1931
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Bibliography
Ellis, G. I. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke. Vol. 1. London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891, p. 196.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 767, no. 2289.
Miner, Dorothy E. A Late Reichenau Evangeliary in the Walters Gallery Library. Art Bulletin 18 (1936): 168-185.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Arts of the Middle Ages. Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 14, pl. 17.
Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949, cat. no. 12, pl. VII.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953, no. 7.
Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 195, no. 64.
Wixom, W. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination: A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51 (1964): 45.
Walters Art Gallery. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1965, pp. 28, 30-31, no. 13.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Illuminated Manuscripts: Masterpieces in Miniature. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1984, pl. 6.
Siede, Irmgard. Zur Rezeption ottonischer Buchmalerei in Italien im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. St. Ottilien, Germany: EOS, 1997, pp. 75, 77-78, 269-270.
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Archibald, Elizabeth; Bockrath, Diane; Davis, Lisa Fagin; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery, Doug; Hamburger, Jeffrey; Noel, William; Sciacca, Christine; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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