The Codex Egberti – taking its name from its commissioner, the Archbishop Egbert of Trier – features one of the most elaborate picture cycle on the Life of Christ in the history of book painting. Produced in the 10th Century on the island of Reichenau, the work's enormous narrative appeal continues to fascinate readers even today.
The coherence of the cycle clearly proves that there was one master responsible for the book's artistic concept. Art historians have identified him as the "Master of the Registrum Gregorii", a monk who, on Egbert's initiative, also decorated a collection of letters from Pope Gregory the Great.
Today, after more than 1000 years, the gold and much of the silver are still both in excellent condition, lending the book the same splendor that it had in Bishop Egbert's day.
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Facsimile edition (Egbert-Codex) published by Faksimile Verlag in 2005.
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