Accession number
MS G.20
Object title
Epistles (MS G.20).
Display Date
ca. 1200.
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 line
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.
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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