London. British Library, Royal MS 1 B XI

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
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  • British Library, Royal MS 1 B XI
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Language
  • Latin
  • Ancient Greek
  • Hebrew
Title
  • The Four Gospels; Records of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Description
  • Contents: ff. 2r-v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning imperfectly: 'addita sunt. Igitur hec presens prefaciuncula'. ff. 2v-5r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (Preface to St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'. ff. 5r-v: Eusebius, Epistula ad Carpianum. ff. 5v-43v: Evangelium secundum Sanctum Mattheum (The Gospel of St Matthew) preceded by a prologue (ff. 5v-6v) and capitula (ff. 6v-8v). ff. 44r-69r: Evangelium secundum Sanctum Marcum (The Gospel of St Mark), preceded by a prologue (ff. 44r-v) and capitula (ff. 44v-45v). ff. 70r-112r: Evangelium secundum Sanctum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), preceded by a prologue (ff. 70r-v) and capitula (ff. 71r-v). ff. 112v-145r: Evangelium secundum Sanctum Iohannem (The Gospel of St John), preceded by a prologue (ff. 112v-113r) and capitula (ff. 113r-v). ff. 145v-146v: Thirteenth-century records of the revenues of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury have been inserted on leaves which were originally left blank.Decoration:Three incipit pages with initials, partially coloured, and display script in red and blue, at the beginning of St Mathew, St Luke, and St John (ff. 9r, 72r, 114v). Two historiated initials of St Michael fighting the dragon (f. 6r); and of a devil urging a monk to gluttony, with a portrait of St Matthew below, a naked man pointing his mouth and a man with a head of an ox at the beginning of St Matthew's Gospel (f. 6v). Five inhabited or zoomorphic initials with display capitals in red and blue: P'(lures) at the beginning of the Prologues, with a man fighting with a dragon (f. 2v); 'A'(monius) formed of dragons at the beginning of the epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus (f. 5r); 'M'(arcus), formed of two dragons (f. 44r) and 'I'(nicium) with a horse, a dragon, and a lion, at the beginning of St Mark's Gospel (f. 46r); 'L'(ucas) with a dragon biting at the beginning of St Luke's Gospel (f. 70r). A foliate initial in outline drawing with display capitals at the beginning of St John's Gospel (f. 112v). Three blue initials with penwork decoration in red (ff. 64r, 72v, 106r) and 2 initials in red and blue (ff. 142v, 134r). Decoration unfinished, space left blank for an initial (f. 139v). Instructions in the margins for the illuminator (e. g., f. 6r).
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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