Master of the Codex Amiatinus (Monkwearmouth-Jarrow scriptorium)700

Codex Amiatinus, Exodus 7 (canvas 91)

Folio of the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving complete Latin Vulgate manuscript, made c. 700 AD at the twin Northumbrian monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow under Abbot Ceolfrith. Approximately corresponds to Exodus 7 in Vulgate book order. The page shows the actual eighth-century insular-uncial script as it would have been read by the monks who produced it for Pope Gregory II.

Codex Amiatinus, Exodus 7 (canvas 91)
View full resolutionPublic domain. Codex Amiatinus, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Amiat. 1, c. 700 AD. Image hosted by Florence Laurenziana via OCLC ContentDM IIIF service. Folio→chapter mapping is approximate — uniform linear interpolation across the Vulgate sequence.Source

Depicted passages

Exodus 7

About Master of the Codex Amiatinus (Monkwearmouth-Jarrow scriptorium)

Anglo-Saxon (Northumbrian)

Anonymous Anglo-Saxon scribes and illuminators at the twin Northumbrian monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, who under Abbot Ceolfrith produced the Codex Amiatinus c. 700 AD — the oldest surviving complete copy of the Latin Vulgate, originally one of three pandect Bibles commissioned for the abbey and intended as a gift for Pope Gregory II in Rome.

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