Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Egerton 609 Gospels of Marmoutier / Egerton Gospels

Latin
s. ixⁱⁿ
Breton manuscripts, Breton manuscripts

Identifiers

Location

England London, British Library

Collection: Egerton manuscripts

Shelfmark

Egerton 609

Title

Gospels of Marmoutier / Egerton Gospels

Type

gospelbooks

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

s. ixⁱⁿ

9th century: final third (Bisagni, DHBM); “IX, Jh., ca. 3. Drittel” (Bischoff).

Origin, provenance

Origin: Brittany

Brittany

No short description available

See more France, westFrance, west

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more Brittany? Western France?

Provenance: ToursTours

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Later provenance: Tours, Marmoutier abbeyTours, Marmoutier abbey

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Dimensions

31 cm × 21 cm

Foliation

2 ff. (flyleaves, unfoliated [i]-[ii]) + 102 ff. (ff. 1-102) + 2 ff. (flyleaves, unfoliated [iii]-[iv])

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Caroline minuscule

Illumination

yes

Table of contents

Legend

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Breton manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] British Library: digitised manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Bisagni, Jacopo, and Sarah Corrigan [contribs], A descriptive handlist of Breton manuscripts, c. AD 780–1100 (DHBM), Online: NUI Galway, 2021?–present. URL: <https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie>.

direct link

Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts [in the British Library], Online: British Library, ?–present. URL: <https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts>.

direct link

Deuffic, Jean-Luc, “Le ‘monachisme breton’ continental: ses origines et son intégration au modèle carolingien”, Pecia 12 (2007): 77–141.

122

Bischoff, Bernhard, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), ed. Birgit Ebersperger, vol. 2: Laon–Paderborn, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004.

[id. 2433.]

Alexander, Jonathan J. G., A survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 1: Insular manuscripts, 6th-9th century, London: Miller, 1978.

79

Glunz, H. H., History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon: being an inquiry into the text of some English manuscripts of the Vulgate Gospels, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.

Internet Archive – On loan: <link>

xvi (no. 31), 65, 89–94, 111–113