# Gospel Book [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1001-1050 - Technique: Manuscript \(Cod. C.93\) ## Commentary Henry III \(reigned 1039-1056\), continued the Ottonian custom of commissioning luxury Gospel Books. The eleventh-century Ottonian books made for Henry III included the Gospel Lectionary \(Ms. b. 21, now in Bremen\), a Gospel Book \(Cod. C.93, now in Uppsala\), the celebrated Codex Aureus of Echternach \(Hs. 156142, now in Nuremberg\), and the Golden Gospels of Henry III \(Cod. Vitr. 17, now in El Escorial\). The last manuscript of Ottonian grandeur comes from a century later again and it is certainly consciously archaic in function. It is the Gospel Book illuminated about 1175-88 by the monk Herimann at Helmarshausen Abbey for Henry the Lion \(c. 1129-1195\), duke of Saxony and Bavaria and founder of Munich. Here on this double page from the Gospel Book for Henry III\( folios 3v and 4r\), the emperor is shown with his wife Agnes kneeling before Christ in heaven, and with Sts Simon and Jude in his palace at Goslar. ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()