Accession number
MS M.968
Object title
Book of Kings with commentary (MS M.968).
Display Date
between 1200 and 1225.
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 line
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.
Decoration: illuminated initials.
Script
Gothic minuscule
Language
Latin
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