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LATE ANTIQUE MEDITERRANEAN
manuscripts
terms: codex, folio, parchment, recto, vellum, verso
Vatican Vergil, Rome, c. 400, parchment, 8 1/2 x 8", Biblioteca Apostolica, Vaticana, Vatican City,
cod. Vat. lat. 3225
Scenes from the Aeneid:
Trojans come before King Latinus, f. 63
Vienna Genesis, eastern Mediterranean, early 6th c., parchment, 335 x 250 mm (13 x 9-3/4"),
Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, cod. Vindobon, theol. gr. 31
*Rebecca and Eliezer, or Rebecca at the Well, f. 7 (pict. 13)
Vienna Dioscurides, herbal, Constantinople, early 6th c., 380 x 330 mm (15 x 13"),
Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, cod. med. gr. 1
plant
*author portrait: Dioscurides, Inspiration (Epinoia), assistant, f. 5v
*dedication miniature: Princess Anicia Juliana
between Magnanimity and Prudence with Gratitude of the Arts at feet, f. 6v
Rabbula Gospels, Zagba [Syria], 586, 13 x 10 1/2", Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, cod.
Plut. I, 56
*Ascension, f. 13v
THE FRONTIERS AND THE NORTH--NOMADIC VISUAL CULTURE
themes of migration, portable work
terms: cloisonné, cloison
Celtic -- La Tène style
*Desborough mirror, 1st c. CE, bronze, about 8" diameter, British Museum, London
Germanic -- Anglo-Saxon
Sutton Hoo ship burial for Anglo-Saxon ruler, c. 650, British Museum, London
*purse lid
7-1/2" across with cloisonné ornament, animal interlace medallions, duck and eagle ornament,
man and beast ornament
EARLY MEDIEVAL
themes of monasticism, the cloister, court patronage, the Holy Roman Empire
terms: abbey, cloister, historiated initials, incipit, monastery
Hiberno-Saxon
*Book of Durrow (Gospel book), Northumbria?, 670s, vellum, 9-1/2 x 6-1/2, Trinity College,
Dublin MS 57 (full facsimile at Special Collections)
*symbol of Matthew, 21v
*carpet page, 192v (Germanic type)
*carpet page, 3v (Celtic type)
*symbol of John: lion (rare alternative symbol version), 191v
*Chi Rho page, 23r
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*Lindisfarne Gospel Book, Lindisfarne, (Northumbria), c. 698, vellum, 13-1/2 x 9-1/2", British
Library, London, MS Cotton Nero D. IV (sumptuous facsimile at Special Collections)
*Matthew, 25v
*cross carpet page, 26v
*Codex Amiatinus, c. 700, the monastery of Jarrow (Northumbria), 14 x 10", Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana, Florence, MS Amiat.1
*Ezra the scribe, 5r
*Book of Kells, Iona [western Scotland] and Kells [Ireland]?, c. 805-20, vellum, 13 x 10", Trinity
College Library, Dublin, MS 58 (A I, 6) (sumptuous facsimile at Special Collections)
*Chi Rho page (Matthew 1:18), Incarnation initial, 34r
*Cross of Abbot Muiredach, Monasterboice, Ireland, after 923
east side: Last Judgment
below: Adoration of Magi, Moses striking rock, David & Goliath, Death of Abel, Adam and
Eve
Carolingian
*Lorsch Gospels ("Court school"), c. 810-15, Bibliothek Batthyaneum, Alba Julia, MS R.11.1
(sumptuous facsimile at Special Collections)
*John, 67v
*Coronation Gospels/Schatzkammer Gospels ("Palace group"), c. 800, 12-3/4 x 10", vellum,
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
*Mathew, 15r
*Ebbo Gospels (Reims), 816-823, 10 x 8", Hautevillers nr. Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale,
Epernay, MS. 1
*Mathew, 93r
*Lindau Gospels, front (second ) cover: Christ on the Cross, c. 870, gold, pearls, precious stones,
13 1/2 x 10 1/2", Morgan Library, New York MS 1
Monastic planning
precinct wall and gate, cloister, chapter house, dormitory, night stairs, refectory,
west range: cellar (lay-brothers refectory and above, their dormitory [Cistercian only])
outside the inner monastery: abbot's house, guesthouses, watercourses
outside the monastery: grange, barns including tithe barns
*Plan of St. Gall for a model monastery, Carolingian, Benedictine, c. 819, vellum, 44 x 30",
Monastery Library, St. Gallen, Switzerland
stone and timber construction
monastery plans of Cluny II, c. 999, and Cluny III, c. 1130, Cluniac, Burgundy
*Fontenay, Cistercian monastery, mid-12th C., Burgundy