Medieval and Manuscripts

Essen Cathedral Treasury Hs. 1

The manuscript Essen Cathedral Treasury Hs. 1, often referred to as the Great Carolingian Gospels or Altfrid Gospels, is a parchment manuscript from the Essen Cathedral Treasury. It was created around the year 800 and has possibly been in Essen since the foundation of the Essen convent around 850. The Gospels contain over a thousand glosses in Latin, Old Saxon, and Old High German.

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• ▸Flying buttress
• ▸Dalecarlian runes
• ▸Church of St John the Evangelist, Cheetham Hill

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