The Gero Codex or Gero-Codex is an

Ottonian The Ottonian dynasty () was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman emperors, especially Otto the Great. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem du ...

illuminated manuscript probably produced at

Reichenau Abbey Reichenau Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on Reichenau Island (known in Latin as Augia Dives) in southern Germany. It was founded in 724 by the itinerant Saint Pirmin, who is said to have fled Visigothic Spain ahead of the Moorish invaders, w ...

in Germany between 950 and 970. It is one of the first and most splendid of the Eburnant group of early Ottonian manuscripts. It contains miniatures of the four evangelists, the monk-scribe Anno handing it to

Gero Gero I ( 900 – 20 May 965), sometimes called the Great (),Thompson, 486. Also se was a nobleman from East Francia who ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg in the south of the present German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which he ...

(probably of Cologne) and Gero handing it to

Saint Peter Saint Peter (born Shimon Bar Yonah; 1 BC – AD 64/68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the Jewish Christian#Jerusalem ekklēsia, e ...

. The manuscripts illuminations bear similarities with those of the ninth-century Lorsch Gospels, particularly the

Christ in Majesty Christ in Majesty or Christ in Glory () is the Western Christian image of Christ seated on a throne as ruler of the world, always seen frontally in the centre of the composition, and often flanked by other sacred figures, whose membership change ...

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

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(Cod. 1948).

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

References

Bibliography

* * 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, {{Authority control Ottonian illuminated manuscripts 10th-century illuminated manuscripts 960s 950s 10th century in Germany