Godescalc Evangelistary

The Godescalc - Gospel Lectionary is a Carolingian illuminated manuscript, which was built on the so-called palace school of Charlemagne at Aachen royal palace 781-783. It is the oldest manuscript of this, also known as Ada - group after its Leithandschrift painting school.

The book is named after a writer Godescalc. Clients were loud colophon Charlemagne and his wife Hildegard. Today, the handwriting in the Paris Bibliothèque is national nouv Ms. under the signature. acq. Latin 1203.

The Gospel Lectionary is illuminated with six full-page miniatures, ornamental jewelry, initials and decorative sides. It was written with golden and silver ink on purple dyed parchment. Stylistically, it has still clearly elements of the insular manuscript illumination on the full-page miniatures - the enthroned Christ, the four Evangelists and the Fountain of Life - aspire but after only real physicality and a logical connection to the represented space and seemed so influential for the following works of Court School of Charlemagne the Great. In Godescalc Gospels appeared for the first time ever in a Gospel Book, the motif of life fountain on.

Gallery

Evangelist Luke