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Library Place Stockholm
Library Name Nationalmuseum
Shelfmark NMB 1927
Folio Range Whole MS (210 fols)
Date XI
Origin(s)
  • Brittany (probably)
  • Rennes (?)
Provenance
  • Collection of the Count of Kergariou at the castle of Bonnaban (near Saint-Malo)
  • Library Joseph Martini (Lucerne).
Genre
Contents
  • Empty folio (1r)
  • Prefatory materials on the Gospels, including Eusebian canon tables (1v-24v)
  • Depiction of Christ in Majesty (18r)
  • Portrait of Saint Matthew (18v)
  • Gospel of Matthew (25r-76v)
  • Portrait of Saint Mark (77r)
  • Gospel of Mark, preceded by prologue and capitula (incomplete) (77r-106v)
  • Portrait of Saint Luke (107r)
  • Gospel of Luke, preceded by prologue and capitula (107r-158v)
  • Portrait of Saint John (159r)
  • Gospel of John, preceded by prologue and capitula (159r-199r)
  • Capitulare evangeliorum (199r-209v)
  • Empty folio (210r-v).
Old Breton Materials No
Irish / Hiberno-Latin materials No
Connection with Brittany
Notes

This MS, also known as 'Gospels of Saint-Georges of Rennes', was in all likelihood written in a Breton scriptorium, possibly in the area of Rennes or at Rennes itself. The list of contents presented above is based on ILLB R182.

Number(s) in Bischoff's Katalog n/a
Essential bibliography

Duine 1922: 57 (§32bis); ILLB R182.

URLs for digital facsimile
Last Updated 2021-05-25 08:55:31
Author Jacopo Bisagni
DHBM Identifier #213
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