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The Gero Codex, completed around the year 969 on the world-famous island of #Reichenau, is probably the most important and also the oldest work of Reichenau #illumination. This unique #manuscript was created by the scribe Anno for the influential Archbishop Gero of Cologne, who had himself immortalized in no less than two dedication images. With a total of 24 magnificent full-page #miniatures and precious decorative pages in purple and gold, as well as its countless artistically designed and partly historiated initials in gold and silver, the Gero Codex is a #manuscript of outstanding artistic and historical value and is a beautiful testimony to the development from Carolingian to Ottonian book art. It is no coincidence that the Gero Codex, due to its outstanding status, was included by UNESCO as one of the few medieval manuscripts in the select circle of the Memory of the World Programme. Today, the magnificent codex is preserved in the Darmstadt University and State Library.

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