Accession number
MS M.140
Object title
Speculum humanae salvationis.
Created
Franconia, Germany, probably Nuremberg, between 1350 and 1400.
Binding
16th century, backed with stamped pigskin, paper boards covered with vellum from a missal, 2 leather ties; inscribed on back: Specu/lum - Salv/tionis; in blue morocco case lettered: Speculum Humanae Salvationis - German Ms. on vellum XV cent.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
51 leaves (2 columns, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 310 x 230 mm
Provenance
Owned (1858) by Boone (S.L. Sotheby, Principia typographica, 1858; v. 1, p. 155); bought Jul. 24, 1896 by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 102; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. in rhyme; written and illuminated in Franconia, Germany, probably Nuremberg, late 14th century; an inscription on fol. 1 attributes authorship to Nicolas of Lyra.
Decoration: 192 colored drawings of Old and New Testament types and antitypes.
Decoration: 192 colored drawings of Old and New Testament types and antitypes.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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