Accession number
MS M.969
Object title
Bible, with prologues (MS M.969).
Created
Northern France, Saint-Omer or Thérouanne, ca. 1270-1280
Binding
18th-century green morocco.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1976.
Description
453 leaves (2 columns, 40 and 47 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 324 x 225 mm
Provenance
Library of the de Lamoignon family (bookplate and shelfmarks of the Bibliotheca Lamoniana); Archdiocese of New York.
Notes
Ms. Bible with prologues; written and illuminated in Northern France, Saint-Omer or Thérouanne, between 1270-1280. It is related in style to Morgan Library & Museum MS M.79 (see, Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 2013-2014, I-2, 514; 11-2, 76-87 ).
Decoration: 73 historiated initials, pen-flourished initials, with numerous figures and scenes on the marginal extensions.
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 73 historiated initials, pen-flourished initials, with numerous figures and scenes on the marginal extensions.
Revised: 2017
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Resources
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