Accession number
MS M.334
Object title
Homilae decem in epistolam sancti Joannis.
Created
Luxeuil-les-Bains, France, 669.
Binding
Formerly in French 15th century parchment with ties in tan solander case; now in citron morocco, tooled with simulated fish clasps by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
133 leaves (1 column, 23-27 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 250 x 170 mm
Provenance
Executed in 669 at the Benedictine monastery of Luxeuil; Beauvais Cathedral (15th-century catalogue, no. 79); Comte le Caron de Troussures; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through De Tonnay from the Comte Marie Louis le Caron de Troussures in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; written and decorated in France at the Benedictine monastery of Luxeuil in 669.
Decoration: 1 zoomorphic initial.
Decoration: 1 zoomorphic initial.
Script
uncial
Language
Latin
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