Harvard University, MS Richardson 1

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10785

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 1

Title:

Biblia sacra

Date:

ca. 1250

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

ill.

Physical Description:

Extent: 446 leaves, bound : ill. ; 27 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Addington, Samuel

Samuel Addington WIKIDATA

Desq, P.

P. Desq WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902

Benjamin Franklin Stevens WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a small gothic bookhand in 2 columns of 51 lines, with 55 decorated and 76 historiated illuminated initials on burnished gold ground, and colored initials in blue and red at secondary divisions; probably written in England.
Title from spine.
With Jerome's preface.
Bound in late 18th-cent. English red morocco.
In a tray case, 30 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Believed by a former owner to have belonged to St. Louis; P. Desq (his sale, Paris, 1866, n. 1); Samuel Addington (his sale, London, 1886, n. 30); to B. F. Stevens; Robert Hoe (his sale, New York, 1912, II, n. 2425).

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098763920203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4510608

Holding Institution:

Harvard University