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