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The Uta Codex Quattuor Evangelia (Clm. 13601, Bavarian State Library, Munich) is a "gospel lectionary" or
evangeliary The Evangeliary or Book of the Gospels is a liturgical book containing only those portions of the four gospels which are read during Mass or in other public offices of the Church. The corresponding terms in Latin are and . The Evangeliary develo ...
. It contains those portions of the gospels which are read during church services. "Unlike most Gospel lectionaries, the individual readings in the Uta Codex are not arranged in calendrical order, but are instead grouped together after their respective Gospel authors." It was commissioned around 1025 by Abbess Uta von Niedermünster, Regensburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is a spectacular
Ottonian The Ottonian dynasty (german: Ottonen) was a Saxons, Saxon dynasty of List of German monarchs, German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman Emperors named Otto, especially its first Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Empe ...
manuscript, and is famous for its gem-encrusted gold case, with a relief of Christ in Majesty, as well as for the eight full-page miniatures. German art historian George Swarzenski described the Uta Codex as "the wonderful gospel book, which is perhaps the most significant work of Western illumination of its time." The manuscript consists of 119 parchment sheets, 382 × 274 mm.Cohen. Four full-page frontispieces illustrate 1) the Hand of God, 2) Abbess Uta dedicating the codex to the Virgin and Child, 3) the Crucifixion, and 4)
Saint Erhard Saint Erhard of Regensburg was bishop of Regensburg in the 7th century. He is identified with an Abbot Erhard of Ebersheimmunster mentioned in a Merovingian diploma of 684. Ancient documents call him also Erard and Herhard. Life Peter Nugent, w ...
, patron saint of the convent, celebrating Mass. A portrait of each the four Evangelists accompanies the readings from their Gospel.


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Ottonian art Ottonian art is a style in pre-romanesque German art, covering also some works from the Low Countries, northern Italy and eastern France. It was named by the art historian Hubert Janitschek after the Ottonian dynasty which ruled Germany and nort ...
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Niedermünster, Regensburg The Niedermünster or Niedermünster Abbey (german: Reichsstift Niedermünster), Regensburg, was a house of canonesses ( Frauenstift) in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. At the height of its power it was one of the wealthiest and most influential i ...


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Bibliography

* Cohen, Adam S. ''The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany'', Penn State Press, 2000. * Swarzenski, Georg. ''Die Regensburger Buchmalerei des X. und XI. Jahrhunderts'', Verlag von Karl W. Hiersemann, 1901. (https://archive.org/details/dieregensburgerb00swar)


External links


Uta Codex at Munich Digital Library
* The Hand of God; Four Virtues: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_6 * Madonna and Child; Abbess Uta: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_7 * The Crucifixion: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_10 * Saint Erhard Celebrating Mass: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_11 * Saint Matthew: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_14 * Saint Mark: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_86 * Saint Luke: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_122 * Saint John: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00075075/image_182 Ottonian illuminated manuscripts 11th-century illuminated manuscripts Christian iconography