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Gospel Book leaf.

Accession number
MS M.688a.1
Object title
Gospel Book leaf.
Created
New York, ca. 1924
Credit line
Gift of Sister Olive Francis Rhinelander, ca. 1943.
Description
1 single leaf (1 column, 6 lines), matted : purple vellum, ill. ; 173 x 258 mm
Provenance
Sister Olive Francis Rhinelander.
Notes
Ms. modern illuminated leaf; written and illuminated in New York, the United States, ca. 1924.
Illuminated leaf lettered in gold on vellum stained purple, in imitation of the Morgan Library Carolingian manuscript M.23.
Text and decoration: While the earth remaineth ... six lines of burnished gold uncial script on purple vellum, resembling MS M.23.
Scribe: Sister Olive Francis Rhinelander (d. 1943).
Script
uncials
Language
English
Century
Classification