Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library

The Gospels are often accused of being “anonymous” with the titles “The Gospel According to _______” being added much later. One of the major problems with that we have no anonymously attributed surviving gospel manuscripts. In other words, when we have an extant copy of a Gospel — which in continuity with authorial attribution at the time was either found on the very first or the very last page — when we have instances of that page surviving and the text is of what we know today as the Gospel o