Accession number
MS M.109-111
Object title
Bible (MS M.109-111).
Display Date
ca. 1260.
Created
France, ca. 1260.
Binding
M.109 Rebound in boards with white pigskin back by Douglas Cockerell for William Morris.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913).
Description
M.109 224 leaves (2 columns, 42 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 500 x 360 mm
Provenance
William Morris (purchased from Leighton, Dec. 1895); Richard Bennett (purchased from Morris's estate, 1897); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; gift of J.P. Morgan (1867-1943), 1924.
Notes
Ms. three volume Bible; written and illuminated in France, ca. 1260.
Four leaves of this Bible are held in the Pierpont Morgan Library as Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.851.1-4.
M.109 Decoration: 9 historiated initials.
M.110 Decoration: 26 historiated initials.
M.111 Decoration: 28 historiated initials.
Four leaves of this Bible are held in the Pierpont Morgan Library as Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.851.1-4.
M.109 Decoration: 9 historiated initials.
M.110 Decoration: 26 historiated initials.
M.111 Decoration: 28 historiated initials.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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