A Gospel Book is a codex or bound volume, containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament. In the Middle Ages the production of copies of the entire Bible was rare. Individual books or collections of books were produced for specific purposes. Gospel Books were produced for private study or for ceremonial purposes. Many of these volumes were quite elaborate. Gospel books often contained, in addition to the text of the Gospels themselves, supporting texts including Canon Tables, summaries, glossaries, and other explanatory material.
And Henoch let his books down upon the earth and delivered them unto his sons, and began to teach them to perform the custom of sacrifice, and unrighteous mysteries, and so did he hide the kingdom of heaven from men.
And the books shall be opened and he shall judge the whole world and the faith which he proclaimed.
And he shall glorify the righteous for their patience: and glory and honour and incorruption shall be the reward of their good works: but as for them that kept the commandments of the angels and obeyed unrighteously, indignation and trouble and anguish shall take hold on then.
The Book of the Gospels rests normally on the centre of the Holy Table, and whenever possible its cover is elaborately decorated with silver or gold; it should on no account be bound in the skins of dead animals (i.e.
In general the GospelBook is treated in the same way as the Holy Icons, and is regarded as an icon of the Saviour, more particularly in His teaching ministry.
The letter of Cardinal Tisserant promulgating the new books of the Ruthenian Recension made it quite clear that the abuse of celebrating from the altar, and combining liturgical books into a single "missal", was to end.
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