Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, latin 281 + latin 298, Codex Bigotianus, fol. 12v. Marginal Entries for Matthew Sections XIII, XIIII, XV. Image reproduced courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, latin 281 + latin 298, Codex Bigotianus, fol. 12v. Marginal Entries for Matthew Sections XIII, XIIII, XV. Image reproduced courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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This paper focuses on the presence of the different elements of Eusebius’s system of gospel concordance in a series of pocket gospel books associated with early medieval Ireland. It provides a brief overview of the pocket gospel book series as a whole and discusses the appearance of parts of the Eusebian system in the Book of Armagh and in the MacD...

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... Old Latin gospel text to which the Eusebian system was added by a corrector, to later manuscripts which reflect late antique models. An example of the latter is found in the Codex Bigotianus made in southern England in the eighth century, which reproduces the cola et commata layout, script and Eusebian sections of a much earlier Italian Vulgate (Fig. 9). Similarly, the Codex Sangermanensis primus, copied in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 810, has been seen to rely on a pandect assembled in Rome in the fifth century. Other manuscripts in the group reflect a mishmash of models, Vulgate and Old Latin, some of which had full marginal notation, others the simple version, and others no notation ...