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The Gospels of Otto III is an Ottonian illuminated Gospel book produced around the year 1000, probably at the monastery of Reichenau, for Emperor Otto III. Its full-page images include portraits of the four evangelists and an imperial scene showing the enthroned ruler receiving homage from personifi...
The Pericopes of Henry II is an illuminated Gospel lectionary produced at the Abbey of Reichenau for Emperor Henry II in the early eleventh century. It contains selected Gospel passages arranged for reading during the liturgical year and is decorated with full page miniatures associated with Ottonia...
The Bamberg Apocalypse is an Ottonian illuminated manuscript produced in the early eleventh century and now held by the Bamberg State Library in Germany. It contains the Book of Revelation together with an illustrated Gospel lectionary, and its large, richly colored miniatures belong to the artistic...
Quedlinburg Abbey is a former imperial abbey in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, founded in 936 by Queen Mathilde in memory of her husband Henry I. It served as a secular canoness house for women of high nobility and held imperial privileges during the Ottonian period. The Romanesque collegiate...
The Codex Aureus of Echternach is an eleventh-century illuminated Gospel book produced at Echternach Abbey during the Ottonian period, probably between about 1030 and 1050. Made for a wealthy imperial or ecclesiastical patron and associated with Emperor Henry III, it contains the four Gospels alongs...
