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Accession number: 
MS G.31
Title: 
Bible
Created: 
Paris, France, ca. 1250.
Binding: 
Perhaps 17th century Austrian; mottled brown calf with gold tooling and floral scrollwork.
Credit: 
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description: 
372 leaves (2 columns, 57 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 301 x 195 mm
Provenance: 
Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Fideikommissbibliothek, Vienna; purchased in December 1954 from William H. Schab, 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. written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1250.
Decoration: 78 historiated initials; numerous decorated initials.
Artist: Christina Workshop (also referred to as Christina atelier and Christina group in Branner, p. 63, p. 209).

Script: 
gothica textualis.
Language: 
Latin
Resources: 
Description/Bibliography
Century: 
13th century
Genres: 
Illuminated manuscripts
Historiated initials
Vellum (parchment)
Textura
Calf bindings (Binding)
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts