Golden Gospels of Henry III
Agnes. In the background the Speyer Cathedral
.The Golden Gospels of Henry III, also Codex Aureus of high altar.
The manuscript has 171 folios which measure 500 mm (20 in) by 335 mm (13.2 in) and is lavishly illuminated. It contains 13 full page miniatures, and 43 half-page miniatures, 12 decorated pages of canon tables, and over 40 other decorated pages half-page initials.
The manuscript was later owned by
Mary. While in the Netherlands, the manuscript was used by Erasmus. It was subsequently acquired by Philip II, King of Spain
, who donated it to the monastery at El Escorial.
Stylistically, it is related to the so-called Emperor's Bible, presently in Uppsala University Library, Sweden.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "The Emperor's Bible". Uppsala University Library. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- Walther, Ingo F. and Norbert Wolf. Codices Illustres: The world's most famous illuminated manuscripts, 400 to 1600. Köln, TASCHEN, 2005.
Further reading
- Dodwell, C. R. The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
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