Gero Codex
File:Gero Codex Maiesta Domini.jpg with Evangelists surrounding]]
The Gero Codex or Gero-Codex is an Ottonian illuminated manuscript probably produced at Reichenau Abbey in Germany between 950 and 970. It is one of the first and most splendid of the Eburnant group of early Ottonian manuscripts.Dodwell, p. 134
It contains miniatures of the four evangelists, the monk-scribe Anno handing it to Gero (probably of Cologne) and Gero handing it to Saint Peter.Dodwell, p. 134
The manuscripts illuminations bear similarities with those of the ninth-century Lorsch Gospels, particularly the Christ in Majesty which is copied from a Carolingian model. It is closely related to the contemporaneous Petershausen Sacramentary, which borrows from the Gero Codex's Christ in Majesty and Ecclesia (personification of the church), and the Hornbach Sacramentary, which was probably produced at the same scriptorium.Dodwell, p. 134
It is held at University and State Library Darmstadt (Cod. 1948).{{cite web | title=Gero-Codex | website=Darmstadt Stadtlexikon | url=https://www.darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de/g/gero-codex.html | language=de | access-date=9 February 2023}}
Gallery
File:Gero-Kodex01.jpg|Dedicatory miniature of Anno and Gero, folio 7v
File:Gero Codex Evangelist Matthäus.jpg|Matthew
File:Gero Codex Evangelis Markus.jpg|Mark
File:Gero Codex Evangelist Lukas.jpg|Luke
File:Gero Codex Evangelist Johannes.jpg|John
File:Meister des Gero-Codex 001.jpg|An initial "S"
File:Gero Codex Widmungsgedicht Petrus.jpg
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|authorlink=Charles Reginald Dodwell|last= Dodwell|first=Charles Reginald|title=The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzZjo3YSLbwC&pg=PA134|year=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-06493-3|pages=134–}}
- {{in lang|de}} Michael Gosmann, Peter Michael Kleine, Kathrin Ueberholz: Der Gero-Codex kehrt zurück. Das gemalte Buch von Wedinghausen. Dokumentationsband über die Ausstellung des Gero-Codex im Kloster Wedinghausen vom 24. Oktober 2009 bis 17. Januar 2010. Stadtarchiv, Arnsberg 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-928394-26-0}}
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Category:Ottonian illuminated manuscripts