Augustinus, Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium

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Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, LFD 1

General Information

Title Augustine, Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Lambach (Austria)
Persons Written by Gottschalk of Lambach, a prolific scribe and artist active in the second half of the 12th century at the Benedictine monastery of St. Kilian in Lambach, Austria.

Current Condition

Dimensions 290 x 206 mm (per folio)

History

Origin

Written in the late 12th century in Lambach, from the second of a two-volume set of which the first volume is Lambach, Stiftsbibliothek Cml L. 

Provenance

Marvin L. Colker (Charlottesville, VA) MS 117; sold Bassenge Kunst-, Buch-, und Fotoauktionen, 18 April 2024, lot 2808; acquired by present owner in July 2025.

Bibliography

  • Davis, Lisa Fagin. The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach

  • Babcock, Robert G. Reconstructing a Medieval Library, Fragments from Lambach