Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 18

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18144

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 18

Title:

Latin Bible

Bible

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1250 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

illustrations

Physical Description:

Extent: 490 leaves : illustrations ; 150 x 105 (116 x 47) mm

Former Owner(s):

Probasco, Henry, 1820-1902

Henry Probasco WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 490. 1-1216 138 1416 158(-8) 16-2916 3012 3116(+1) 3214 (lacking a leaf, binding too tight to specify) 332.
Layout: fol. 1-222 and 223-459 written in 50 lines of two columns; fol. 222 written in 50 lines in two columns; text 3, written in 56 lines in three columns; text 5, written in 32 long lines.
Script: fol. 1-459 written in gothic textualis formata; text 3 in gothic textualis media; text 5 written in gothic cursive media with unlooped d's.
Decoration: Blue initials on magenta grounds alternating with magenta initials on blue grounds at beginnings of books, some decorated with flora and occasionally with dogs and animal-headed birds which form tails to initials. Some initials extended to form left borders. Minor red initials with pale blue flourishes and pale blue initials with red flourishes at beginning of the chapters...
Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 13th century.
Former owner: Henry Probasco.
Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.

Keyword:

Gothic cursive

Gothic scripts

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Apocryphal books (Old Testament)

Bible

Manuscripts, Latin

Translations

Latin language

Early works

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998687628805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBTPJ9

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library