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TM 66360 / LDAB 7611 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/66360

also known as Book of Kells; Codex Kenanensis; Codex Q; Q; Book of Columba; Codex Cenannensis; Leabhar Cheanannais

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Metadata

Date: AD 775 - 825

Provenance: County Meath ? - Ireland (HiberniaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - outside the Imperium RomanumThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]
or Northumbria (3234) or Scotland (3300) or Iona (3301) (?)

Language/script: Latin, drawing (paleography: Irish majuscule)

Material: parchment

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (340 fol.); columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 17

Content (beta!): literary text, New Testament, Mattheus, Marcus, Lucas, Johannes evang.: gospel Mt Mc Lc Joh

Authors / works: Testamentum novum, Matthaeus (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Matthaeum: opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Marcus (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Marcum: opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Lucas (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Lucam: opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Iohannes (Vulgata, Hieronymus), Evangelium secundum Iohannem: opus completum (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature, religion — prose, bible, gospel + liturgy, evangeliarium (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: with drawings

More info: CLAEarlier Latin Manuscripts => 2046 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Lowe, CLA 2 274 (Lowe, Elias Avery - 1935 [1972]) [default]

∙Clavis litterarum Hibernensium 1 22 (O Corrain, Donnchadh - 2017)

∙Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin 58 p. 106-108 descr. (Colker, Marvin L. - 1991)

∙The book of Kells (1990; facsimile edition)

∙Gamber, CLLA 143 (Gamber, Klaus - 1968)

∙Alton - Meyer, Evangeliorum quattuor codex Cenannensis (Alton, E. H. / Meyer, Paul M. - 1950-1951)

∙Houghton, The Latin New Testament p. 275 no. Q descr. (Houghton, Hugh A. G. - 2016) (= catalogue only)

∙McGurk, Latin gospel books from AD 400 to AD 800 87 (McGurk, Patrick - 1961) (= catalogue only)

Photo: CLA 2 274; Pal. Soc. 1 pl. 55-58, 88-89; facsimile edition: E.H.Alton - P. Meyer, Evangeliorum quattuor codex Cenannensis, 3 vols, Berne 1950-1951; colour facsimile edition 1990; CD-rom, The Book of Kells, Dublin 2000

Script & book studies: B. Meehan, The Book of Kells. An illustrated introduction, London 1995; H. Pullian, Word and Image in the Book of Kells, 2006 (with bibliography)

Collections

→ Dublin, Trinity College Ms. 58 (codex Kenanensis)

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