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is the striking contrast between two very distinct traditions and painting styles. On the one hand are the elaborate and intricately decorated initials one comes to expect in
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book had been largely ignored by the academic community until it became the subject of a doctoral dissertation in 2004. Earlier writing includes some brief comparisons of its
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and its role in providing a connection to a specific historical context. It is not known whether this is the same person as
Wigbold, author of the
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manuscripts of this period. The technical expertise of these embellishments is at the same level as those of better-known manuscripts such as the
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with that of its contemporaries and an inconclusive debate regarding the site of its production. There have also been speculations about a
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Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon
Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin
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Cultural
Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach
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135:Key to the treatment of the origin of the
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222:(Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 89-116;
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20:Folio 125r from the Barberini Gospels:
243:by Malcolm Godden & Simon Keynes (
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279:Manuscripts of the Vatican Library
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274:8th-century biblical manuscripts
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245:Cambridge University Press
198:Cambridge University Press
92:Quaestiones in Octateuchum
264:Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts
106:contains one illuminated
114:, and fifteen decorated
228:10.1484/M.SEM-EB.3.3792
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211:The Barberini Gospels
56:Biblioteca Apostolica
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284:Barberini collection
112:Evangelist portraits
74:in 1902 this luxury
240:Anglo-Saxon England
120:evangelist portrait
216:University of Iowa
36:is an illuminated
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214:by Nancy Bishop (
196:by Nancy Netzer (
152:Lichfield Gospels
137:Barberini Gospels
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157:Continental
80:iconography
44:Gospel Book
258:Categories
179:References
161:Romanesque
41:manuscript
173:Barberini
167:See also
163:period.
116:initials
84:colophon
247:, 2008)
200:, 1994)
149:or the
141:insular
125:incipit
88:Wigbald
66:History
26:to John
24:incipit
76:Gospel
108:canon
102:The
48:Rome
32:The
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224:doi
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