COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader Latin MS 98
Reference Number:
Latin MS 98
Parent Work Title:
Evangelia Ottonis
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Gospels
Translated Parent Work Title:
Ottonian Gospel Book
Creator:
Master of the Registrum Gregorii
Creator Role:
Scribe
Date Created:
c996-1002
Description:
Manuscript of the 'Evangelia Ottonis'. The binding is brown leather finished with blind tooling. Within the cover is the printed label, dated 1843 of the Bilbliotheca Bollandiana at Brussels. There are 25 lines to a page, on lines ruled with a dry point. Written in the late 10th century, in an exquisite, rather tall, round and upright, minuscule hand.
Language Code:
lat
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Technique Used:
Blind tooling
Support:
Leather
Support:
Vellum
Creation Site:
Germany--Trier
Item Height:
240 mm
Item Width:
193 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Bibliotheca Bollandiana Bruxellensis
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2011-10-20
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2011-12
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval