Accession number
MS M.317
Object title
Bible (MS M.317).
Created
Prague, Czech Republic, ca. 1410.
Binding
17th-century Bohemian red leather over 15th-century wooden boards, rebacked; corners with 17th-century silver plaques with figures of the four Evangelists in repoussé, their names in Slavonic letters; silversmith's mark XK on the edges of two corners similar to that of a Prague goldsmith of ca. 1649 (Rosenberg, no. 9334), in center an oval plaque of Christ in Majesty; in brown 1/2 morocco box case; binding perhaps made in Prague.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
429 leaves (1 column, 41-43 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 160 mm
Provenance
Johann Czencke (16th-century signature inside upper cover on base of what appears to be drawing of a monstrance, with initial T at its center); what appears to be a list of books is written down lefthand side of inside front cover; library press mark pasted on spine center: MSS Q.1; library shelfmark written inside front cover in dark brown ink: U.IV.44; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Georges Hoentschel, Mar. 14, 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Prague, ca. 1410.
Texts: Genesis through Psalms; followed by interpretations on fol. 397-429v.
Scribe: several scribes, one named Solamen (his signature on fol. 429v).
Decoration: 11 historiated initials.
Artists: two Bohemian artists.
Texts: Genesis through Psalms; followed by interpretations on fol. 397-429v.
Scribe: several scribes, one named Solamen (his signature on fol. 429v).
Decoration: 11 historiated initials.
Artists: two Bohemian artists.
Script
cursive script
Language
Latin
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