Gellone Sacramentary

Gellone Sacramentary is a late 8th century illuminated manuscript.

It is now in the manuscripts department of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, shelfmark Latin 12048.

Its origins are controversial, with some indications that it was copied in a double monastery of monks and nuns in the Diocese of Meaux for Old Cambrai Cathedral.

Its texts sort into two parts: It was copied by two, three or four scribes working in the same scriptorium.

The verso of folio 1 shows the Virgin Mary holding a cross and a censor and that of folio 143 shows a crucifixion, perhaps the oldest image of the crucifixion in a Frankish manuscript.