Accession number
MS M.318
Object title
Origenis homiliae in Genesim, Exodum, Leviticum, et Numeros interprete.
Created
Trier, Germany, 1200-1250.
Binding
In green damask over heavy 19th-century boards with metal plaques, each depicting a pair of apostles; these plaques copied from the reliefs representing the apostles on the side wings of the 13th century Lotharingian Reliquary of the True Cross in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. 7947-1862); these metal plaques, which are closely similar to those of Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.563, may be the work of Alexis Berg, an art restorer active ca. 1854; wooden board repaired by Deborah Evetts in 1970.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913); 1907.
Description
160 leaves (2 columns, 35 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 320 x 240 mm
Provenance
Cistercian abbey of Himmerod (14th century inscription on fol. 106; shelfmark in lower margin of fol. 1); Georges Hoentschel; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with Hoentschel's collection in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Manuscript written and illuminated at Abtei Himmerod (Trier, Germany) in the first half of the thirteenth century.
Decoration: initial "s" in light blue ink, with slight calligraphic decoration; also an initial "d" similarly decorated; many small blue, green, or red initials.
Decoration: initial "s" in light blue ink, with slight calligraphic decoration; also an initial "d" similarly decorated; many small blue, green, or red initials.
Script
compressed textura
Language
Latin
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