Gero Codex
Illustration — Christ in Majesty with Evangelists surrounding The Gero Codex or Gero-Codex is an Ottonian illuminated manuscript probably produced at Reichenau Abbey in Germany between 950 and 970. It is one of the first and most splendid of the Eburnant group of early Ottonian manuscripts. It contains miniatures of the four evangelists, the monk-scribe Anno handing it to Gero (probably of Cologne) and Gero handing it to Saint Peter.
Gero Codex
Anno, Mönch des Klosters Reichenau · Copy from Michael Gosmann, Peter Michael Kleine, Kathrin Ueberholz: Der Gero Codex kehrt zurück. Das gemalte Buch von Wedinghausen. Dokumentationsband über die Ausstellung des Gero Codex im Kloster We · Public domain
- Creator
- Reichenau school of illumination.
- Date
- 969.
- Language
- Latin.
- Genre
- religious art.
- Material
- parchment.
- Held by
- Technical University and State Library Darmstadt.
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Illustration — Christ in Majesty with Evangelists surrounding The Gero Codex or Gero-Codex is an Ottonian illuminated manuscript probably produced at Reichenau Abbey in Germany between 950 and 970. It is one of the first and most splendid of the Eburnant group of early Ottonian manuscripts. It contains miniatures of the four evangelists, the monk-scribe Anno handing it to Gero (probably of Cologne) and Gero handing it to Saint Peter.
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The manuscripts illuminations bear similarities with those of the ninth-century Lorsch Gospels, particularly the Christ in Majesty which is copied from a Carolingian model. It is closely related to the contemporaneous Petershausen Sacramentary, which borrows from the Gero Codex's Christ in Majesty and Ecclesia (personification of the church), and the Hornbach Sacramentary, which was probably produced at the same scriptorium. It is held at University and State Library Darmstadt (Cod.
It is recorded as the work of Reichenau school of illumination. Materials recorded for it are parchment. The record gives 969 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Recorded genres are religious art. It is recorded in the collection of Technical University and State Library Darmstadt.
• Illustration — Dedicatory miniature of Anno and Gero, folio 7v • Illustration — Matthew • Illustration — Mark • Illustration — Luke • Illustration — John • Illustration — An initial "S"
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969
Gero Codex created.
2003
Gero-Codex digitalisiert digitised by DataCite (netbib).
2011
Der Gero-Codex kommt als Leihgabe nach Arnsberg digitised by DataCite (netbib).
2012
Reichenauer Gero-Codex erneut online digitised by DataCite (Archivalia).
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Der Gero-Codex kommt als Leihgabe nach Arnsberg (2011) — DataCite (netbib)
Gero-Codex digitalisiert (2003) — DataCite (netbib)
Reichenauer Gero-Codex erneut online (2012) — DataCite (Archivalia)
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