# Echternach Gospel Book [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Irish]() - Date: 0651-0700 - Technique: Manuscript \(Cod. lat. 9389\), 335 x 260 mm ## Commentary Echternach Gospel Book c. 700 Manuscript \(Cod. lat. 9389\), 335 x 260 mm Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris The place of origin of this manuscript of 223 folios \(also called Gospel Book of St. Wilibrord\) is not certain, it comes perhaps from Ireland \(Abbey of Rath Melsigi\) or Northumbria \(Monastery of Lindisfarne\). The copyist was probably a calligrapher who worked in Durham and Echternach \(now in Luxembourg\). It received its name from the Abbey of Echternach, the previous owner of the codex. The Abbey was founded by St. Wilibrord \(657-739\) who was born in England, in Northumbria. This Gospel Book was probably among those brought from England to Echternach Abbey by St. Wilibrord and his fellow missionaries. The manuscript contains the four gospels with the symbolic images of the respective evangelists. The picture shows folio 18v with the symbolic image of St Matthew. 'Imago hominis', the image of a man, the evangelist's symbol for St Matthew, appears here. The man in the picture, like the Anglo-Saxon missionaries themselves who brought this volume across Europe, is exhibiting the words of the Gospel by holding up an open manuscript. ## Related artworks - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()