Bible

Accession number: 
MS M.65
Title: 
Bible
Created: 
France, between 1225 and 1250.
Binding: 
19th century or earlier orange-pink plush, with leather label: Biblia sacra / French XIII cent., in tan slipcase.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1900.
Description: 
510 leaves (2 columns, 52 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 110 mm
Provenance: 
Owned (1813) by Manuel Abella; his sale (Saragosa, 1819) to Rafael José Crespo; bought (1829) by J.P.R; sold (1881) by Ellis and White to Theodore Irwin (Catalogue 1887, no. 163); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Irwin Collection in 1900; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. Bible; written and illuminated in France, ca. 1225-1250.
Decoration: 1 long historiated initial for the book of Genesis and a small rectangular miniature of the Crucifixion at base of left hand column, both on fol. 4, smaller historiated and decorated initials throughout.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
Classification: