Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. 2. 19

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  • Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 19
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  • 801–825
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  • Latin
  • Old English
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  • Gospels
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  • Latin Gospels written and illuminated in Ireland by Macregol, probably identifiable as the abbot of Birr (d. 821 or 822), with interlinear gloss (literal translation) in Old English added in England by the scribes Farmon and Owun in the second half of the 10th century.
    Decoration: Full-page evangelist portrait (Matthew missing) and facing full-page illumination at start of each Gospel, smaller illuminated initials.
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