University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 724
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1626
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 724
- Title:
- Biblia.
- Place:
- Arras, France
- Date:
- [1275-1299?]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 330 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 375 x 246 (264 x 154) mm bound to 400 x 280 mm
- Note:
- Title from spine.
Generally in good condition. First 3 folios and final folio are badly stained, some other folios show some water damage, a few of the miniatures have been damaged by water or deliberately defaced (for example, f. 156r, 247v).
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Parchment, 330; [1-330]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 56-58 lines, with illuminated border on the left edge of one or both columns on most pages.
Script: Written in a Gothic script, appears to be the work of a single scriptorium.
Decoration: Illuminated series of miniatures in a full-page initial at the beginning of Genesis, depicting the 7 days of Creation and the Crucifixion (f. 3v); historiated initials at the beginning of each subsequent book, a few integrated with an illuminated border; ornamented capitals, many with animals or animal faces in gold, rose, blue, red, and other colors on nearly every page...
Binding: 18th- or 19th-century pigskin with oak boards and the remains of clasps.
Origin: Possibly written and illuminated in Arras, France, in the last quarter of the 13th century.
Gift of T. Edward Ross, 1947.
Presented by Catherine and Thomas Coleman (1598-1647; f. 151r, 250r, 259r) to Ellis Fitzpatrick (f. 250r, 329r); William Farrell (f. 329r); T. Edward Ross (bookplate inside front cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875443503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3st7f229/manifest
- Holding Institution:
