The Book of Kells Copyright information: Decorating medieval gospel books

There are a number of gospel books surviving from roughly around the time of the Book of Kells. The links below are digital reproductions of books made for the Insular and continental Church.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8452185h

Illustrated Insular gospel books

Book of Kells, Dublin, TCD MS 58

Codex Usserianus Primus, Dublin, TCD MS 55

Book of Durrow, Dublin, TCD MS 57

Book of Dimma, Dublin, TCD MS 59

Book of Mulling, Dublin, TCD MS 60

Garland of Howth, Dublin, TCD MS 56

Book of Armagh, Dublin, TCD MS 52

St Gall Gospels, St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51

Lindisfarne Gospels, London, BL Cotton MS Nero D IV

Codex Eyckensis, Maaseik, Church of St Catherine

Echternach Gospels, Paris, BnF MS lat. 9389

Gospel book, British Library Add MS 40618

Gospel of St John , St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek Cod. Sang. 60

Selected continental gospel books and bibles

Gospel books in the Bibliothèque national de France

Harley ‘Golden’ Gospels, London, BL Harley MS 2788

The Moutier-Grandval Bible, London, BL Add MS 10546

‘The Bodmin Gospels’ or ‘St Petroc Gospels’, London, BL Add MS 938

Gospel Book, London, BL Add MS 11848

Gospel Book, BL Add MS 11849

Ingolstadt Gospel Book, Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 27270

Gospel Book, Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 28561

Gospel Book, Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14222

Gospel Book Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 22311

Gospel Book, Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 17011

Gospel Book, Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 6215

Gospels of Saint-Riquier, Abbeville Bibliothèque municipale Ms. 4

Gospel book, Amiens Bibliothèque municipale Ms. 26

Gospel book (Pürten Book of Miracles), Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 5250

JONATHAN J. G. ALEXANDER, INSULAR MANUSCRIPTS, 6TH TO 9TH CENTURY (LONDON, 1979) MICHELLE P. BROWN, IN THE BEGINNING: BIBLES BEFORE THE YEAR 1000 (WASHINGTON, 2006) R. CALKINS, ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES (ITHICA, 1983) W. J. DIEBOLD, WORD AND IMAGE: AN INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MEDIEVAL ART (BOULDER COLARADO, 2000) CHARLES R. DODWELL, THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF THE WEST, 800-1200 (LONDON AND NEW HAVEN, 1993) GEORGE HENDERSON, FROM DURROW TO KELLS: THE INSULAR GOSPEL BOOKS 650-800 (LONDON, 1987) CARL NORDENFALK, EARLY MEDIEVAL BOOK ILLUMINATION (NEW YORK, 1988) RICHARD G. GAMESON (ED.), THE EARLY MEDIEVAL BIBLE (CAMBRIDGE, 1994) A GRABAR, EARLY MEDIEVAL PAINTING FROM THE FOURTH TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURIES (GENEVA, 1957) H. KOESTER, ANCIENT CHRISTIAN GOSPELS, THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT (PHILIDELPHIA, 1990) G. W.H. LAMPE (ED.), THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE, VOL 2. THE WEST, FROM THE FATHERS TO THE REFORMATION (CAMBRIDGE, 1969) PATRICK MCGURK, LATIN GOSPEL BOOKS FROM AD 400-AD 800 (PARIS AND BRUSSELS, 1962) LAWRENCE NEES, ‘PROBLEMS OF THE FORM AND FUNCTION OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL BIBLES FROM NORTHWEST EUROPE’ IN IMAGINING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL BIBLE ED J. WILLIAMS (PENNSYLVANIA, 1999), 125-31 OTTO PÄCHT, BOOK ILLUMINATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES. AN INTRODUCTION (LONDON, 1986) KURT WEITZMANN: LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY CHRISTIAN BOOK ILLUMINATION (NEW YORK, 1977)




Copyright information for images used in the Decorating medieval gospel books article • All images from the Book of Kells © The Board of Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin • Arcaded canon table Gospels of Saint Médard of Soissons, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Latin 8850, fol. 7r • Grid form canon table, the Book of Durrow, fol 8r. • Miniature of Christ in Majesty, surrounded by the Evangelists and their symbols, from the Moutier-Grandval Bible, France (Tours), c. 830 – c. 840. (British Library, Add MS 10546, f. 352v). • Codex Aureus of Lorsch portrait of Mark with his symbol, around 800 Batthyaneum (National) Library, Alba Iulia, Romania. • Folio 10 recto of the Bible of S Paolo fuori le Mura, Frontpiece for the Book of Revelations cc • Opening words of the Gospel of Matthew in the Book of Durrow (Irish, c. AD675) • Saint-Médard de Soissons Gospels (c. AD 810).