Lindau Gospels - Wikipedia
The Lindau Gospels is an illuminated manuscript in the Morgan Library in New York, which is important for its illuminated text, but still more so for its treasure binding, or metalwork covers, which are of different periods.
Lindau Gospels | The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions
Named after the Abbey of Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany), where it was once housed, the Lindau Gospels ranks as one of the great masterpieces from the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum. Its jeweled covers constitute one of the most important of …
Lindau Gospels | Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the …
Lindau Gospels. This treasure binding is a composite made of two distinct covers brought together on a Gospel book written and illuminated toward the end of the tenure of Hartmut, abbot of St. Gall, likely for ceremonial use in the abbey church. The jeweled front cover must have been a royal gift of immense importance.
The Lindau Gospels in Brilliant Light — Medieval Histories
2016年3月2日 · Named after the Abbey of Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany), where it was once housed, the Lindau Gospels ranks as one of the great masterpieces from the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum. Its jeweled covers constitute one of the most important of all medieval treasure bindings.
The Lindau Gospels, One of the Great Treasures of Early Carolingian ...
2024年7月15日 · The gilt silver, enamel, and jeweled lower cover on the Lindau Gospels, MS M1 in the Morgan Library & Museum, was executed in Austria, possibly in Salzburg, during the second half of the 8th century.
Lindau Gospels - Morgan Library & Museum
Named after the Abbey of Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany), where it was once housed, the Lindau Gospels ranks as one of the great masterpieces from the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum. Its jeweled covers constitute one of the most important of …
The Lindau Gospels Treasure in New York - Liturgical Arts Journal
2021年12月22日 · Among these, the Lindau binding shines as the most valuable and exquisite extant Medieval shrine for the Gospels in any collection in the world, private or institutional. It is a veritable miracle that the Lindau Gospels have survived almost entirely intact since the time the cover was assembled.
The Lindisfarne Gospels - Smarthistory
In 635 C.E. Christian monks from the Scottish island of Iona built a priory in Lindisfarne. More than a hundred and fifty years later, in 793, Vikings from the north attacked and pillaged the monastery, but survivors managed to transport the Gospels safely to Durham, a town on the Northumbrian coast about 75 miles west of its original location.
Smarthistory – Lindau Gospels cover
Lindau Gospels cover. by Dr. Nancy Ross and Dr. Steven Zucker. Jeweled upper cover of the Lindau Gospels, c. 880, Court School of Charles the Bald, 350 x 275 mm, cover may have been made in the Royal Abbey of St. Denis (Morgan Library and Museum, New York)
From the Vault: Lindau Gospels - YouTube
Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, discusses the Lindau Gospels, one of the great masterpieces from the collection.