Description:
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
Ausgewählte Einzelbilder außerdem verfügbar unter der Signatur
Codsim 254 Extent:
38 Bl. - Pergament Alternative Title:
Cod.sim. 254 Abstract:
Englische Version: The Ottheinrich Bible is the earliest surviving
illustrated manuscript of the New Testament in the German language.
The work was commissioned around 1430 by Ludwig VII, the Bearded,
Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt. The text was written, presumably in
Ingolstadt, in a monumental script consistent with the highest
calligraphic standards. The text was then sent to Regensburg for
illumination. Only about one-fifth of the miniatures were
completed, however, before work was stopped. Sometime before 1530,
the Count Palatine Ottheinrich acquired the Bible and commissioned
the artist Mathis Gerung to complete the sequence of miniatures,
which previously extended only as far as the Gospel of St. Mark.
Gerung finished the work in 1530–31. In all, this magnificently
illuminated Bible contains 146 miniatures and 294 ornamented
initials on 307 parchment leaves. The manuscript was later taken as
war booty from Heidelberg to Munich and then to Gotha, where in the
19th century it was split into eight volumes. The Bavarian State
Library acquired three of these volumes in 1950, and the remaining
five in 2007. Subjects:
Deutschland
1 AD - 199 AD
Germany
225.4 Publication Statement:
[S.l.] Regensburger Raum 15./16. Jh.
