Reims Gospel
Reims Gospel (French language, French: ''Texte du Sacre'' which means "coronation text"; also referred to in some Czech language, Czech sources as the ''Emmaus Evangelie'' or ''Remešský kodex'') is an illuminated manuscript of Slavonic (Slavic) origin which became part of the Reims Cathedral treasury. Henry III of France and several of his successors including Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV took their oath on it.František Bílý: ''Od kolébky našeho obrození'', Prague 1904, pp. 7–12 In the time of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, who gave it to the just-founded Emmaus monastery in Prague, the text was believed to have been written by the hand of Procopius of Sázava, St. Procopius. Description Out of a total of 47 double-sided sheets, 16 sheets are written in Cyrillic script, Cyrillic (as a fragment) and 31 sheets in the Glagolitic alphabet.Jacques-Paul Migne''Dictionnaire d'épigraphie Chrétienne'' Paris 1852 The book used to have a treasure ...
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