Record ID:
76959
Accession number:
MS G.42
Title:
Bible
Created:
England, perhaps Oxford, ca. 1265.
Binding:
Late 19th- or early 20th-century blind- and gold-tooled black morocco by Zaehnsdorf with arms on top cover (argent, on a bend azure (?) three buckles or) and bottom cover (azure (?) six stars argent).
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
396 leaves (2 columns, 56 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 396 x 245 mm
Provenance:
John Addam; Edward Banyster; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., London; Archibald Stirling of Keir (1867-1931); purchased in Jan. 1957 from Lathrop C. Harper, New York 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. Bible; written and illuminated in England, perhaps Oxford, ca. 1265.
Includes interpretations of Hebrew names.
Decoration: 85 historiated initials, 2 marginal figures.
Script:
gothica textualis.
Language:
Latin
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