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The Medieval Church · c. 1409–1420

The Monotessaron

Jean Gerson · 1363–1429

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What it is

The four gospels harmonised into a single continuous narrative in a hundred and fifty chapters, with the sources marked throughout.

Why it lasted

The most used gospel harmony of the later Middle Ages, and a model for the harmonies that proliferated after printing.

Scripture it works from

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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