Accession number:
MS G.20
Title:
Epistles
Created:
Italy or France, ca. 1200.
Binding:
Tooled brown levant morocco by Marius Michel (ca. 1876-1925) with monogram of Baron Jean Vitta in four corner shields on covers and twice on spine.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
158 leaves (3 columns, 50 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 252 x 170 mm
Provenance:
Baron Jean Vitta, Paris; purchased in November 1952 from Davis and Orioli, London for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in northern Italy or France, ca. 1200.
Contains interlinear and marginal glosses.
Decoration: 14 large interlace initials, 1 historiated, 1 small illuminated interlace initial, 1 uncolored interlace initial, 3 marginal pen drawings.
Script:
textura primitiva
Language:
Latin
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