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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30487

Shelfmark:

ege-14

Title:

Ege leaf 14: Vulgate Bible, France, 1200s

Bible

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1200s

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 40 cm x 27 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

de Rupe family (Limoges, France)

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: foliage (motif); gold leaf; illuminations (painting); initials (layout features); rules (layout features); marginalia (annotations); columns (layout features)
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 14. VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
FRANCE
Late Xlllth Century
Latin Text
Angular Gothic Script
Bible
(Biblia Sacra Latina, Versio Vulgata)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
This copy of the Latin version by St.Jerome was made during the period when France stood at the height of her medieval glory
A decade or two before, Louis IX ( Saint Louis), the strongest monarch of his age, had made France the mightiest power in Europe
This favorable political situation rendered possible the "golden age" of the manuscript, and Paris became the center in which the finest manuscripts were written and sold
In the quarter century from 1275 to 1300, marked advances were effected in the art
The bar borders came to be executed in rich opaque gouache pigments, with ultramarine made of powdered lapis lazuli predominating
The foliage scroll work inside the initial frame created a style that persisted with little or no change for nearly two hundred years
The script was well executed and was without rigidity or tension
All these elements, together with the sparkle which was created by the casual distribution of the burnished gold accents, give to this leaf a striking atmosphere of joyous freedom.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century

Keyword:

Bible

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/55

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:55/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University