Accession number
MS M.436
Object title
Bible (MS M.436).
Created
Padua, Italy, ca. 1287-1300.
Binding
Early 20th-century white pigskin, blind-tooled; gilt-bronze corner pieces and clasps; gauffered edges; gold-embossed machine-made endpapers.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1910.
Description
462 leaves (2 columns, 56 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 425 x 265 mm
Provenance
Made for Niccolò di Monterano of Padua (name on fol. 432v); owned by a Contarini of Venice (arms in margin of title page); a Jesuit college (ex-libris on lower margin of title page); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. Bible; written and illuminated in Padua, Italy, ca. 1287-1300.
Scribe: Mutinensis de Grasulfo; signature on fol. 432v.
Decoration: 191 historiated initials; marginal vine scroll and grotesques.
Artist: two artists, a Paduan artist who also participated in the decoration of a choir book (Padua, Biblioteca Capitulare. MS B-16*) and Modenese, a Bolognese artist.
Scribe: Mutinensis de Grasulfo; signature on fol. 432v.
Decoration: 191 historiated initials; marginal vine scroll and grotesques.
Artist: two artists, a Paduan artist who also participated in the decoration of a choir book (Padua, Biblioteca Capitulare. MS B-16*) and Modenese, a Bolognese artist.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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