Bible
Accession number:
MS G.34
Title:
Bible
Created:
England, possibly Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, ca. 1200.
Binding:
17th-century brown calf with escutcheon incorporating Tollemache arms (argent, a fret sable).
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
221 leaves (2 columns, 38 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 443 x 305 mm
Provenance:
Bentley Lionel John, Third Baron Tollemache, Helmingham Hall, Stowmarket, Suffolk; his sale, London, Sotheby's, May 16, 1955, lot 118; purchased there by Maggs Brothers Ltd., London 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 England, perhaps Bury St. Edmunds, ca. 1200.
Text includes Genesis to Kings IV (2nd Kings); first volume of a three volume manuscript Bible.
Decoration: 1 illuminated initial, numerous elaborate penwork initials.
Script:
textura primitiva.
Language:
Latin;
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