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Das Lorscher Evangeliar

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Information

Munich, Prestel-Verlag, 1965. 370 x 265 mm. Half parchment binding, inside a gray cardboard box. Copy 15/900. Commentary by Wolfgang Braunfels.


Specialist Notes

The Gospel of Lorsch or Codex Aureus Laureshamensis is a Gospel attributable to the school of the court of Charlemagne, made around the year 810. The manuscript owes its name to the monastery of Lorsch, where it was kept from the century. IX century until the dissolution of the monastery in 1556. Currently it is kept in two parts in the Vatican Apostolic Library and in the Romanian National Library in Alba Iulia.