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Bible (MS M.163).

Accession number
MS M.163
Object title
Bible (MS M.163).
Created
France, possibly Corbie, 1229.
Binding
French 17th-century black morocco over wooden boards, gilt-tooled, with 4 silver hinges (clasps missing).
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
450 leaves (2 columns, 53 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 216 x 150 mm
Provenance
Howell Wills sale (London, 1894, no. 191) to Pickering; Richard Bennett, bought Feb. 4, 1895; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 1; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. Bible; written and illuminated in France, possibly Corbie, in 1229.
Includes the prologues of Jerome and the interpretations of names.
Scribe: Brito; colophon (fol. 412v) reads: Expl. Apocalysis Iohannis. Actum a.d. millesimo ducentesimo vicesimo nono. In vigilia omnium sanctorum. Premia pro merito debet habere Brito.
The only link this manuscript has to Corbie is a reference to a "Salomon Brito, clericus" on the fly-leaf of a 13th century manuscript from the Abbaye de Corbie in the Bibl. d'Amiens, ms. 51 (see, Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur l'ancienne bibliothèque de Corbie, Paris, 1860, p. 25).
Decoration: 1 large, 62 small historiated initials.
Revised: 2017
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification