Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 161

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18196

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 161

Title:

Harmony of the Gospels

Bible

Place:

Belgium

Belgium TGN

Date:

approximately 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 253] leaves, bound ; 15 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Blomfield, George Becher, 1801-1885

George Becher Blomfield WIKIDATA

Priorij Groenendaal

Groenendael Priory WIKIDATA

Note:

Text in a neat cursive hand in red and brown; 29-32 lines per page; vertical lines lightly ruled in brown; numbers, paragraph marks, small and large capitals, and underlining in red; beginning of each sentence touched in red.
Contemporary ms. ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Liber Cenobii Beatae Mariae Viridis Vallis in Zonia", indicates that the ms. was written in and for the Groenendaal monastery, founded by the great Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroek, and visited often by Gerard Groote, spiritual father of the Devotio moderna.
Nineteenth-century English brown buckram on four thongs; bline-ruled borders, with fleurons and crosses stamped in black along edges; gold-stamped spoine title "Evangeliorum et Epistolarum harmonia soec. XIV; red marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
Armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield.

Keyword:

Bible. Epistles of Paul

Latin language

Early works

Bookplates

Specimens

Bible. Gospels

Harmonies (Reference works)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991828598805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8Z9UT4VI

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library