# Dover Bible [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1101-1150 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. 4\) ## Commentary This illumination is from the opening page of St Matthew's Gospel in the Dover Bible \(folio 168v\). \(The manuscript was made in Canterbury and its name was given because in the fourteenth century it was recorded in the library catalogue of the Dover Priory.\) It shows the evangelist holding his manuscript carefully in the fold of his robe and apparently undoing the clasp to open up the text. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()