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Bible (MS G.18).

Accession number
MS G.18
Object title
Bible (MS G.18).
Created
England, perhaps Gloucester, ca. 1240
Binding
15th-century blind-stamped calf over boards, rebacked.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
398 leaves (2 columns, 50 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 283 x 200 mm
Provenance
Richard de Sholdone; St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury; Cardinal Adrian de Castello (d. ca. 1521); W. Gossip, 1744; Joyce, Lady Allerton; her sale, London, Sotheby's, July 27, 1948, lot 358; H. Harvey Frost (1873-1969); purchased in May 1952 from Maggs Brothers Ltd., London for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. Bible, with calendar for Gloucester; written and illuminated in England, perhaps Gloucester, ca. 1240.
Decoration: 18 historiated initials, numerous decorated initials.
Includes interpretations of Hebrew names and table of various readings for various feasts.
Contents
fols. 1r-1v: Flyleaf (possibly from later manuscript) -- fols. 2r-2v: Title pages (later addition) -- fol. 3r: Contents (later addition) -- fols. 3v-5r: Blank -- fols. 5v-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-376r: Bible -- fols. 377r-397r: Interpretations of Hebrew names -- fols. 398r: Table of Bible readings -- fols. 398v: Blank.
Script
gothica textualis
Language
Latin
Century
Classification