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Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in Germany.

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Excerpt - Folio 19
Excerpt - Folio 19

MS 12: Four Gospels [Bible. Gospels], 11th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 12
Contents The manuscript contains the text of the four Gospels according to the Vulgate.Prologues: start on f. 1v. They consists of three prologues: the first is the letter Saint Jerome wrote to Pope Damasus and which acts as prologue to all four Gospels, starting with the words Novum opus facere me cogis (ff. 1v-4r); the second prologue, taken from Saint Jerome's 'Commentary to the Gospel of Saint Matthew', begins with the words ...
Dates: 11th century