Les plaques d'ivoire du Sacramentaire de Drogon (Paris, BnF, Latin 9428) : nouvelles perspectives iconographiques

The Ivory Plaques of the Drogo Sacramentary of (Paris, BnF latin 9428): New Iconographic PerspectivesMade during the Carolingian Renaissance, the Drogo Sacramentary (Paris, BnF latin 9428) is famous for its history – it was commissioned between 827/836-855 by Drogo, Charlemagne's illegitimate son, Bishop of Metz and great patron of the arts – and for its refined and sumptuous decoration that consists of several illuminations throughout the text and of eighteen ivory plates fixed on an 18th-century binding. The iconography of the illuminations and that of the sculpted ivory plates are very close, but the wrong order in which the ivory plates were reassembled during the modern era has made it difficult to understand the Christological and liturgical context of the scenes in the light of the Christian typology.

Recent support from the King Baudouin Foundation United States for conservation study, however, has now yielded major discoveries about the original order of the plaques, their origin, and the meaning of their iconography in close relation to the manuscript, its contents and its illuminations. [Publisher's text]