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Eusebian Reading and Early Medieval Gospel Illumination

: This paper proposes that patterns of reading fundamental to the Eusebian apparatus also structure aspects of figural illumination in early medieval gospel books. Beginning with in-depth discussion of the St Augustine Gospels (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 286) and extending into several Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon examples, the essay explores the idea that Eusebian principles of textual segmentation, cross-refer-ence, harmony, and diversity define a number of elaborate visual programmes—both within and beyond illuminated canon tables themselves. The resonance between Eusebian attitudes to text and the selected artists’ approach to the visual setting of the gospels suggests a complex interplay in the manuscripts’ programmes between transmit-ting the four evangelists’ texts and representing the distinct entity of the gospel book itself.