Work of Art Record 52031

Record No

52031

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.S670.3

Location

Sweden, Stockholm: Kungliga Biblioteket

Date

mid 8c.

Subject Headings

John the Evangelist

Notes

The portraits of Evangelists Mark and Luke are missing. Inscription gives information that this book was rescued from Viking warriors by Earl Aelfred and his wife Werburg, and giveln to Christ Church, Canterbury.

Citations

Belsheim, J., Codex Aureus (1878), passim

Alexander, J., Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century (1978), cat. 30; pp. 56-57; color ill. 147; ill. 152-159

Codex Aureus: An Eighth-Century Gospel Book; Stockholm, Kungliga Bibliothek, A. 135 (2001-2002), passim

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