Landévennec Group

The Landévennec Group is a group of 10th and 11th century illuminated manuscripts of the Four Evangelists from Basse-Bretagne, probably all from the scriptorium of Landévennec Abbey. Influenced by insular art, they are marked by their representation of the evangelists as humans with animal heads.

List

 * British Library, Breton Gospel Book (British Library, MS Egerton 609): provenance from Marmoutier Abbey, Tours, entered the British Museum in 1836
 * Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 85: dating to 850-900, once belonged to Fleury Abbey
 * Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 8: dating to 850-900, brought by monks fleeing from Landévennec after its destruction by the Vikings in 913, who settled in Montreuil-sur-Mer
 * Troyes, Médiathèque, MS 960: dating to 909, Gospels, known as the Saint-Gildas-de-Ruys Gospels
 * Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D. 2. 16: dating to 900-950, given to Exeter Cathedral by bishop Leofric.
 * New York Public Library, Harkness Gospels, MS 115: dating to 890-910, named after its former owner, who donated his book collection to the New York Public Library in 1928, with two other more classical Romanesque miniatures added in the 11th century.