Wellesley College, MS Milne 43

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16436

Shelfmark:

MS Milne 43

Title:

Bible

Bible

Place:

Paris

Paris TGN

Date:

12--

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 4, 736 leaves ; 179 x 121 (121 x 77) mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Vellum (of very fine quality). i2, ii2, I24−3, II-III24, IV20, V-VIII24, IX24−2, X28, XI32, XII-XIII24, XIV22, XV24, XVI26, XVII-XXII24, XXIII12, XXIV-XXIX24, XXX-XXXI20, XXXII8+1; lacking first 3 folios, replaced by four folios in the sixteenth century; lacking 2 folios after fol. 201. Signatures preserved on fol. 662-674 (quire 29); first half of quire is signed "az" - "mz", first...
Layout: 2 columns (35 mm each), 41 lines. Bounding lines full-length, bounding and writing lines in blind or plummet, some prickings partially preserved at top.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration: Prologues begin with 4-line initials in gold and colors; chapter initials alternate 2-line red with blue filigree or blue with red filigree; verse initials stroked red. Fol. 2r: full-length historiated [I] with seven medallions showing the days of creation in gold and colors; each book begins with a 7- to 8-line historiated initial, eighty-one in all.
Origin: Written in Paris in the thirteenth century.
Saec. XIV ; XV dry-point glosses visible throughout, e.g. fol. 54. Sir Thomas Phillipps (lion rampant stamp on original front flyleaf, #502)

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Bible

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000652822

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/36579/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College