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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30488

Shelfmark:

ege-19

Title:

Ege leaf 19: Vulgate Bible, Italy, 1300s

Bible

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1300s

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 23.25 cm x 17.25 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: birds (motif); foliage (motif); gold leaf; illuminations (painting); inhabited initials; initials (layout features); pen-flourished initials; rubrics; rules (layout features); marginalia (annotations); columns (layout features);
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 19. VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
ITALY
Early XIVth Century
Latin Text
Transitional Rotunda Script
Vulgate Bible
(Biblia Sacra Latina, Versio Vulgata)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
At this period, the St.Jerome Bible was not transcribed as often as one would expect in the country of its origin and the very land which held the seat of the Roman Church
During the greater part of the Xlllth century, while the popes were greatly concerned with gaining political power, art was at a low ebb in Italy, and religious manuscripts were comparatively few and far inferior to the work of monastic scribes in Germany, France, and England
But with the great wealth accumulating in Italy during the XIVth century through commerce and the Crusades, this country soon surpassed in richness as well as in numbers the manuscript output of all other nationalities
The rich black lettering of this manuscript is in the transitional rotunda script and is executed with skill and beauty
It is supplemented by initial letters in rich ultramarine blue and deep cinnabar (vermilion), which colors are reflected in the ornament of the romanesque capitals
All of these factors combine to indicate that the manuscript was executed in central Italy, possibly at Florence.
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/79

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:79/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University