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Subject(s)

• Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Manuscript SCHK.XIII.18. [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Liturgy—Texts—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Carolingian—Germany—Aachen—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Germany—Aachen—Facsimiles [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Notes

• Title from colophon of facsimile.
• Commentary volume published in 2013.
• Edition limited to 333 copies numbered in arabic numerals and 40 copies numbered in roman numerals not in trade.
• SAX copy: No. 165.
• Complete facsimile edition of the Coronation Gospels, created around 795 in Aachen, in the Palace School of Charlemagne. The facsimile volume retains the original format of 340 x 265 mm. Each page of the book is entirely coloured in purple. The four full-page portraits of the Evangelists are gilt with real 23-carat gold. The gold of the 16 liturgical plates, the four initial pages and the text pages are reproduced with gold leaf. Each individual sheet is stamped out according to the original contours of the sheet, and tacked in single layers by hand to form five genuine double bands to which a hand-stitched headband is attached at the top and bottom. -- Publisher's web site (viewed 9/19/2013)

Language note

In Latin ; interim commentary in German.

Other title(s)

Bible. Gospels. Latin. 2013.

Also known as

• Vienna Coronation Gospels
• Coronation gospels of Charlemagne
• Treasury Gospels
• Codex Aureus

ISBN

9783577129152 (facsimile and commentary)

OCLC

858732920

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