Das Krönungsevangeliar des Heiligen Römischen Reiches
Publisher: Faksimile Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Munchen
Language: ger; lat
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9783577129154; 9783577129152; 9783577129435
Subjects: Liturgy; Texts; Facsimiles; Carolingian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien; Catholic Church
Other titles: Vienna Coronation Gospels; Coronation gospels of Charlemagne; Treasury Gospels; Codex Aureus; Bible. Gospels. Latin. 2013.
Notes: Title from colophon of facsimile.

Complete facsimile edition of the Coronation Gospels, created around 795 in Aachen, in the Palace School of Charlemagne. The facsimile volume retains the original format of 340 x 265 mm. Each page of the book is entirely coloured in purple. The four full-page portraits of the Evangelists are gilt with real 23-carat gold. The gold of the 16 liturgical plates, the four initial pages and the text pages are reproduced with gold leaf. Each individual sheet is stamped out according to the original contours of the sheet, and tacked in single layers by hand to form five genuine double bands to which a hand-stitched headband is attached at the top and bottom. -- Publisher's web site (viewed 9/19/2013)

Interim commentary includes a new edition of Wilhelm Koehler's pioneering essay on the Coronation Gospels, edited by Fabrizio Crivello.

Interim 32-page commentary to be replaced by full commentary of approximately 208 pages.--Publisher's web site (viewed 9/19/2013)

In Latin ; interim commentary in German.