Accession number
MS M.362
Object title
New Testament (MS M.362).
Display Date
between 1400 and 1450.
Created
England, between 1400 and 1450.
Binding
Dark blue morocco gilt, stamped J. Mackenzie inside end paper.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
257 leaves (2 columns, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 110 mm
Provenance
Owned (1584-1609) by Richard Gerardie, parson of Stockport; William Trendler (1659, name and date on fol. 7); Ffalkner family (1662-1676); Susanna Ffalkner (1664-1687) who married (1662) William Hart, rector of Walpool (Norfolk); William Sanders (signature on fol. 173) and Thomas Sanders (1685, name and date on fol. 191v); Sotheby's sale (London, Dec. 21, 1885, no. 1009) to Quaritch; Lord Amherst of Hackney (catalogue, 1906, p. 63 no. 3); his sale (London, Sotheby's, Mar. 27, 1909, p. 173, lot no. 896) to Quaritch; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. Bible (New Testament only); calendar for East Anglia; written and illuminated in England at the beginning of the 15th century.
The Wycliffe translation as revised by John Purvey and others.
Decoration: blue, rose, and gold bars springing from illuminated initials, often forming a border around the text, and interspersed with sprays and rosettes.
The Wycliffe translation as revised by John Purvey and others.
Decoration: blue, rose, and gold bars springing from illuminated initials, often forming a border around the text, and interspersed with sprays and rosettes.
Script
textura
Language
Middle English
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