Accession number
MS M.295
Object title
Bible (MS M.295).
Created
Belgium, possibly Liège, ca. 1260.
Binding
15th-century Flemish stamped red leather over boards; 2 clasps; in red leather morocco backed case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: The Bible - Flemish manuscript - XIII cent.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
679 leaves (2 columns, 47 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 140 x 90 mm
Provenance
Executed for a Beghard or Cistercian congregation; an erased 14th century inscription on fol. 1 appears to read: Iste liber est dom Impis Marie Virginis....; below it is an inscription that reads: Codex e Bibliothecae pp....; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ludovic Badin in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; written and illuminated in Belgium, possibly Liège, ca. 1260.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, 79 historiated initials, and decorated initials throughout (see decorated initial "I" on fol. 581v for example).
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, 79 historiated initials, and decorated initials throughout (see decorated initial "I" on fol. 581v for example).
Contents
fol. 1r: Inscription -- fols. 1v-2v: Miniatures -- fols. 3r-623r: Bible -- fols. 623v-678r: Interpretation of Hebrew names.
Script
compressed textura
Language
Latin
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