Bible
Accession number:
MS G.15
Title:
Bible
Created:
France, possibly Paris, between 1250 and 1275.
Binding:
Blue velvet over oak boards.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
549 leaves (2 columns, 49 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 163 x 118 mm
Provenance:
Johannes Suicardus a Cronberg, Deacon of Mainz, before 1597; Johannes Riedesel de Eisenbach, after 1597; purchased in Mar. 1951 from William H. Schab for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in France, possibly Paris, third quarter of the 13th century.
Includes interpretations of Hebrew names.
Decoration: 75 historiated initials, numerous decorated initials.
Script:
textura.
Language:
In Latin;
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