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Evangelistar Kaiser Heinrich III - Evangelica Historia, 1981

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€ 80 - 100

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€ 218

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Information

Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1981. 200 x 155 mm. Full parchment binding with a lion embossed on the upper plate in gold. Copy n.59 / 550m preserved in slipcase.

Together in the lot the facsimile of the Evangelica Historia , Ms. L.58. Sup of the Ambrosiana Library, Milan, Electa, 1978. 230 x 175 mm. Copy n.635 / 999.


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Specialist Notes

Set of two facsimiles of biblical codices.
The codex & nbsp; Evangelistar Heinrichs III is an illuminated manuscript of the Ottonian period commissioned by Henry III and made between 1039 and 1043 in the monastery of Echternach.

The “Evangelica Historia” codex of the century. XIV, preserved in the Ambrosiana Library, is composed of short texts accompanied by 158 drawings.