Evangeliary Cim 2. The manuscript among regions and centuries of medieval Europe

Provider and number: GAČR 13-18261S

Duration: 2013–2015

Recitient: Institute of Art History, CAS

Principal investigator: Kateřina Kubínová

Research team: Kateřina Kubínová

The manuscript Cim 2 (Library of the Metropolitan Chapter in Prague) originated in the 870s in one of the monastery workshops in northern France. It is decorated with a total of eight full-page figural illuminations (with iconography of the vocations of evangelists) and with eight full-page incipits showing an Irish-Scottish inspiration. It was most likely through the Corbie monastery that the manuscript got to its sister Saxon monastery Corvey. Here it became the model to the local school of illumination and it played a part in the establishing of the Saxon illumination tradition of the 10th century. It was exactly in this environment that the manuscript of Gumpold’s legend from Wolfenbüttel made for Bohemia. Evangeliary was probably given to the newly founded bishopric (973), when the Saxon monk Dětmar became Prague’s bishop. The manuscript became a part of the treasury in Prague’s Cathedral; in the 14th century it was noticed here by Charles IV; he had archaic binding put on it and it seems that he designated it as the coronation Evangliary for the Czech kings.

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