Accession number:
MS G.65
Title:
De officiis
Created:
England, probaby Essex, between 1150 and 1199.
Binding:
12th century doeskin over boards, with pink leather thong and metal clasp, under a natural-color doeskin chemise with ample flaps and with edging of pink doeskin.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
97 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 232 x 160 mm
Provenance:
Abbey of St. Osyth, Essex; William Joly, 16th cent.; Bentley Lionel John, Third Baron Tollemache, Helmington Hall, Stowmarket, Stuffolk; his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 6, 1961, lot 1; purchased there by Maggs Brothers, Ltd., 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 England, probably in Essex, in the second half of the 12th century.
Decoration: 3 illuminated interlace initials, one with the figure of a warrior.
Script:
gothica textualis primitiva.
Language:
Latin
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