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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;
Resources: 
Description/Bibliography
Century: 
13th century
Genres: 
Illuminated manuscripts
Historiated initials
Illuminated initials (layout features)
Vellum (parchment)
Textura
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts