Accession number
MS M.727
Object title
[Aurora, sive Biblia versificata].
Display Date
13th century.
Created
Northern Italy, 13th century.
Binding
15th- or 16th-century Italian dark red morocco, blind-tooled, with 4 clasps.
Description
170 leaves (1 column, 50-51 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 150 mm
Provenance
Name of 16th-century owner with possible shelf mark on flyleaf ("Sum Philippi Galilei, H. 5350); Sidney Graves Hamilton (1855-1916) of Oxford (bookplate); his sale (London, Sotheby's, July 25, 1917, lot 426) to Quaritch; purchased from Voynich in 1927.
Notes
Ms. verse commentary on the Bible; written and decorated in northern Italy in the 13th century.
Decoration: 2 long colored initials in red and blue with inhabited penwork extenders.
Decoration: 2 long colored initials in red and blue with inhabited penwork extenders.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
Resources
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