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Library Place Baltimore
Library Name Walters Art Museum
Shelfmark MS W.1 (61)
Folio Range Whole MS (167 fols)
Date IX ex. / X in.
Origin(s)
  • Brittany (probably)
Provenance

Collection of Malevergne de Lafaye, notary in Limoges, who bought the MS in 1838.

Genre
Contents

Gospels (1r-155v), also including:

  • Prologue and capitula to Mark's Gospel (36r-38v)
  • Prologue and capitula to Luke's Gospel (72v-77r)
  • Prologue and capitula to John's Gospel (122v-124r)
  • Incomplete list of pericopes for the liturgical year, titled Capitulare Euangeliorum de circulo anni (156r-167v).
Old Breton Materials No
Irish / Hiberno-Latin materials No
Connection with Brittany
Notes

The MS contains full-page portraits of Saint Mark (fol. 38v), Saint Luke (fol. 77v), and Saint John (fol. 124v). Both the script and the iconography of this MS point to a Breton origin (accepted in Kat. §184). This MS is particularly close to other codices discussed in the present hand-list: (1) Oxford, Bodleian Lib., Laud Lat. 26, (2) Alençon, BM, 84, (3) Tongeren, Trésor de la Cathédrale (s.n.), (4) Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Arch. S. Petri, D.154. Indeed, Alexander (1985: 270–1) pointed out that 'leurs portraits [i.e., of the evangelists] sont [...] en dépendance de modèles carolingiens exécutés presque certainement à Tours.'

Number(s) in Bischoff's Katalog 184
Essential bibliography

Alexander 1985: 270–1; EBGB 15–22; Fleuriot 1983: 104; ILLB In6; OHLP 256; PMSB 294 (§9); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 289.

URLs for digital facsimile
Last Updated 2021-05-10 15:17:07
Author Jacopo Bisagni
DHBM Identifier #12
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