Master of the Registrum Gregorii

The Massacre of the Innocents by the Master of the Registrum Gregorii, from the Egbert Codex

The Master of the Registrum Gregorii, also known as the Registrum Master or the Gregory Master, was an anonymous tenth-century scribe and illuminator, active in Trier during the episcopate of Egbert of Trier.

Codices containing work ascribed to him include:

• The Registrum Gregorii (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Hs. 171/1626)
• Two Trier sacramentaries (Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 40, ex. 1447, and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Lat. 10501)
• The Codex Egberti (seven miniatures)
• The Sainte-Chapelle Gospel Book (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Lat. 8851)
• The small Egbert Psalter (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 7/9)

Bibliography

• Henry Mayr-Harting, Ottonian Book Illumination: An Historical Study, part II (London, 1991), pp. 61–63.
• Carl Nordenfalk, "The Chronology of the Registrum Master", in Kunsthistorische Forschungen: Otto Pächt zu seinem 70. Geburtstag, edited by Carlo Bertelli, Artur Rosenauer, Gerold Weber (Salzburg, 1972), pp. 62–76. ISBN 3-7017-0027-3.