Detail View: Medieval Collection: Ottonian Gospel Book

Image Number: 
JRL1204474
Reference Number: 
Latin MS 98
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford 110
Image Title: 
Ottonian Gospel Book
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: 
996-1002
Page: 
3r
Image Sequence Number: 
003r
Description: 
Page of manuscript text. The text is written in an exquisite, rather tall, round and upright, minuscule hand. There are 25 lines to a page, on lines ruled with a dry point. Gospel book commissioned by Otto II [955-983] or Otto III [983-1002].
Language Code: 
lat
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Religion
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
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: 
Creative Commons License
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
Multi Page Number: 
55
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2012-04
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval