Accession number
MS M.1229
Object title
Leaf from a Bible.
Created
France, ca. 1310
Credit line
Gift of Kitty Cox in memory of Dorothy N. Cox, 2021.
Description
1 folio : vellum ; 7 3/8 x 5 1/16 inches
Provenance
Edwin A.R. Rumball-Petre (1881-1954); given by him to Dorothy N. Cox, 1947; given by her to her daughter Kitty (Catherine) Cox, probably in the early 1970s.
Notes
Text: The opening of the Epistle of James, "Iacobus Dei et Domini nostri ..."
Decoration: historiated initial "i" containing an image of St. James.
Decoration: historiated initial "i" containing an image of St. James.
Script
Gothic book-hand
Language
Latin
Century
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