Carolingian Gospel Book (British Library, Add MS 11848)

British Library, Add MS 11848 is an illuminated Carolingian Latin Gospel Book produced at Tours.

It contains the Vulgate translation of the four Gospels written on vellum in Carolingian minuscule with Square and Rustic Capitals and Uncials as display scripts.

In addition to the text of the Gospels, the manuscript contains the letter of St. Jerome to Pope Damasus and of Eusebius of Caesarea to Carpian, along with the Eusebian canon tables.

There is a book stamp on folio 1 that indicates that the volume belonged to Count Suchtelan, the Russian Ambassador to Stockholm in the 18th century.

The manuscript contains canon tables set within architectural arcades which are decorated with zoomorphic and foliate designs.

The front cover has the figure of a seated Christ in Majesty enclosed within a rectangular frame decorated with stones and foliate designs.

This Carolingian Gospel Book is written in a fine Carolingian minuscule .
Folio 109 verso contains a portrait of the Evangelist Luke .