Book of Kings with commentary
Accession number:
MS M.968
Title:
Book of Kings with commentary
Created:
Northern France, between 1200 and 1225.
Binding:
17th-century red morocco with the arms of Pope Alexander VII (pope from 1656 to 1667).
Credit:
Gift of John M. Crawford, 1975.
Description:
274 leaves (1 column, 21 lines of Biblical text, with 42 lines of commentary), bound : vellum, ill. ; 331 x 230 mm
Provenance:
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (Bibliotheca Sussexiana, MS. 21); William Morris; Henry William Poor; Walter Thomas Wallace; Carl Edelheim; John M. Crawford.
Notes:
Ms. book of Kings with commentary; written and illuminated in northern France in the first quarter of the thirteenth century.
Decoration: illuminated initials.
Script:
Gothic minuscule
Language:
Latin
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