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Source Description
Binding is non-original. Modern English crushed dark blue morocco by W.H. Smith and Son, first half of the twentieth century; gold tooled outer fillet and lettering, which read "EVANGELIORUM FRAGMENTA MS. SAEC. IX;" inside: wide borders of morocco with triple fillet gold tooled; vellum doublure and flyleaves.
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Document identity
localId
88708
label
Binding from Corvey Gospel fragment
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88708
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title
Binding from Corvey Gospel fragment
description
Binding is non-original. Modern English crushed dark blue morocco by W.H. Smith and Son, first half of the twentieth century; gold tooled outer fillet and lettering, which read "EVANGELIORUM FRAGMENTA MS. SAEC. IX;" inside: wide borders of morocco with triple fillet gold tooled; vellum doublure and flyleaves.
provenance
Written in the Monastery of Corvey on the Weser River in Germany ca. 940-975, during the reign of Otto I [based on style and paleography]; [Originally part of a Gospel Book belonging to the Chapter Library of the Cathedral of Rheims until the French Revolution, now Ms. 10 in the Rheims Municipal Library]; Sir Thomas Phillips, London, ca. 1855 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Ms. 14122, noted on bottom of fol. 1r]; A. Chester Beatty, December 1920, acquired privately from Phillips collection; Walters Art Museum, October 1952, by purchase [from Mrs. Chester Beatty through Maggs Brothers].
date
ca. 950-975 (Ottonian)
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CC0
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en
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Manuscripts & Rare Books
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8
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cm
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31.2
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24.2
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H: 12 5/16 x W: 9 1/2 in. (31.2 x 24.2 cm)
Source extras
style
Ottonian
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modern English crushed dark blue morocco, gold tooled outer fillet and lettering, wide borders of morocco with triple fillet gold tooled; vellum doublure and flyleaves
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MSS
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none
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