Accession number
MS G.12
Object title
Bible, New Testament (MS G.12).
Created
Italy, possibly Lombardy, ca. 1200.
Binding
19th century red velvet.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
156 leaves (2 columns, 42 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 218 x 150 mm
Provenance
Count Wilczeck, Kreuzenstein (Lower Austria); purchased in Oct. 1950 from William H. Schab, New York, for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Italy, possibly Lombardy, ca. 1200.
Decoration: 1 miniature, 9 historiated initials, 18 illuminated initials with vegetal decoration.
Decoration: 1 miniature, 9 historiated initials, 18 illuminated initials with vegetal decoration.
Script
rotunda.
Language
Latin;
Resources
Century
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