Accession number
MS G.42
Object title
Bible (MS G.42).
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 line
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.
Includes interpretations of Hebrew names.
Decoration: 85 historiated initials, 2 marginal figures.
Script
gothica textualis.
Language
Latin
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