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Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 292

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Oxford. Bodleian Library
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  • Bodleian Library MS. Douce 292
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Date
  • 11th century AD
Title
  • Manuscript of the first two Gospels only - Matthew and John
Description
  • Ivory plaque set in engraved metal. Flemish and/or German, early to mid 11th century. The ivory, attributed to Liège in the early 11th century, shows Christ in triumph over personifications of Earth and (damaged) Ocean, with symbols of the four Evangelists; it may be somewhat earlier than the engraved gilt metal plate which fixes it to the thick wooden board of the front cover. The manuscript inside has been attributed to the German scriptorium of Lorsch towards the mid 11th century. However, the metalwork directly fits it, since the angel engraved at the lower border echoes an illumination within. The four Evangelists in human form are engraved at the corners, and at left and right are a saintly bishop and a young ruler, probably Henry IV (crowned king of Germany 1054, acceded 1056), who receives his crown from above and offers or takes a book, perhaps this one: maybe a coronation book?
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Flanders
    Original form
    • Flanders/Germany
    Other form
    • Flandres
    • Flandre
    • Flandre -- Jusqu'à 1482
    • Flandre (?)
    • Flanders, probably Bruges
    • Flanders
    • Flanders, Antwerp?
    • Flanders, Ghent(?)
    • Flanders, Lille?
    • Flanders, Ghent?
    • Flanders, Hainaut?
    • Flanders, Bruges?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Flanders, Mosan?
    • Flanders, Ghent or Malines?
    • Flanders, Hainault
    • Bruges?
    • [Flandern]
    • Flandern
    • Vlaanderen
    • Vlaanderen?
    • [Vlaanderen]
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  • Preferred form
    • Germany
    Original form
    • Flanders; Germany
    Other form
    • Allemagne
    • Allemagne (?)
    • Allemagne ?
    • Deutschland
    • Germany
    • Alemanya
    • Alemania
    • Duitsland
    • Southwestern German region (?)
    • Germany (Trier ?)
    • Germany (Gladbach Abbey?)
    • Germany (Tegernsee?)
    • Cologne (?)
    • [Germany]
    • Germany, Nuremberg?
    • Germany, Erfurt?
    • Fritzlar? (Germany)
    • Cologne? (Germany)
    • Germany, Augsburg?
    • Germany, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg (St. Kylian (?))
    • Germany, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
    • German, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian
    • Germany, Lower Saxony, Corvey, Benedictine abbey (?) or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian or Niederaltaich, Benedictine abbey
    • Germany, Eberbach?
    • Germany, Murbach
    • Germany, Lower Saxony, Corvey?
    • Germany, Fulda?
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Germany, Hirsau?
    • Germany, Reichenau?
    • Germany, Rhineland?
    • Germany, Europe
    • Germany, Cologne or Lower Saxony
    • [Deutschland]
    • Duitsland (?)
    • Germania
    • [Duitsland]
    • [Duitsland?]
    • Germania (?)
    • Deutschland (I)
    • Deutschland (II)
    • Deuschland
    • Deutschland (III)
    • Deutschland (V)
    • Deutschland (I, III, V)
    • I./II. Deutschland
    • I. Deutschland
    • Alemanha
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