[Gospel Book leaf].
Accession number:
MS M.688a.1
Title:
[Gospel Book leaf].
Created:
[ca. 1924]
Credit:
Gift of Sister Olive Francis Rhinelander, ca. 1943.
Description:
1 single leaf (1 column, 6 lines), matted : purple vellum, ill. ; 173 x 258 mm.
Provenance:
Sister Olive Francis Rhinelander.
Notes:
Ms. modern illuminated leaf; written and illuminated in New York, the United States, ca. 1924.
Illuminated leaf lettered in gold on vellum stained purple, in imitation of the Morgan Library Carolingian manuscript M.23.
Text and decoration: While the earth remaineth ... six lines of burnished gold uncial script on purple vellum, resembling MS M.23.
Scribe: Sister Olive Francis Rhinelander (d. 1943).
Script:
uncials
Language:
English
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