ID: 700009423 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009423	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Gospel Lectionary (lectionary; unknown Ottonian; late 10th century; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; Ms. 16; 85.MD.317)

Note: Collection of Gospel selections to be read during the Mass, with important feast days singled out. The style of the lush deocrated initials indicates a creation place of monasteries in Reichenau, Germany or Saint Gall, Switzerland, both near the modern Swiss-German border. The manuscript is the product of an era following the reconstitution of Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire under Otto I in 962, which ushered in a new era of luxury art production.

Titles:

Gospel Lectionary (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

MS 16 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

lectionary [300026464] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts, liturgical texts)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: late 10th century

Creator Display:

unknown Ottonian [preferred,VP]

unknown Ottonian (Ottonian cultural designation) [500204006]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Ms. 16; 85.MD.317

Other: Creation: Kloster St. Gallen [7032472] Sankt Gallen canton (canton), Switzerland (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Other: Creation: Reichenau [7005185] Baden-Württemberg (state), Germany (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Tempera colors, gold paint, silver paint, and ink on parchment, bound between wood boards covered with light brown leather

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	silver paint [300379713]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	leather [300011845]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

Dimensions: 212 leaves; Leaves: 27.7 × 19.2 cm (10 15/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

Cultures:

Ottonian (preferred)

General Subject:

text (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	mass (eucharist) [300379721]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, ceremonies, religious ceremonies, eucharists) (AAT)

	decorated initials [300417548]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, layout features, initials (layout features)) (AAT)

	Caroline minuscule [300195207]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, <script and type forms>, scripts (writing), <scripts by form>, <Latin and Greek alphabet scripts>) (AAT)

	Latin (language) [300388693]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

	uncial [300194424]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, <script and type forms>, scripts (writing), <scripts by form>, <Latin and Greek alphabet scripts>) (AAT)

	rustic capitals [300196122]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, <script and type forms>, scripts (writing), <scripts by form>, <Latin and Greek alphabet scripts>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed on pastedown inside front cover, extensive notes in pencil on provenance, decoration, collation, written by Philip Hofer. Inscribed fol. 1, in an eighteenth-century hand, "Manuscrit no 364 du catalogue de Mr D. Petit/IX Se. 210 feuilles. 3 grandes lettres et 183 moyennes". Inscribed on back flyleaf, notes written by Philip Hofer regarding the value of the manuscript (in code).

Marks: Label: Inscribed on paper pasted to front pastedown: "W.MS.42"; in seventeenth-century hand: "Anno D[omi]ni 1601 20 Janu[ar]ii Renova[tus] est liber iste"; " . . Scripta Bysantina/. . . musiqu . . ./in arq . . ." Small ticket on front pastedown, inside front cover, inscribed "A. 135".

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Gospel Lectionary	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
MS 16	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Kren et al, Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts (1997) 10 ff.

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/103821/unknown-maker-decorated-initial-p-ottonian-late-10th-century/
	..... Kren et al, Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts (1997) 10 ff.