Ohio University, ege-12

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30500

Shelfmark:

ege-12

Title:

Ege leaf 12: 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); 13.75 cm x 10 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: gold leaf; illuminations (painting); initials (layout features); rules (layout features); columns (layout features);
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 12. VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMlNATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
FRANCE
Middle XIIIth Century
Latin Text
Angular Gothic Script
Psalter
(Psalterium)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
This small Psalter leaf illustrates the fact that, although skilled scribes were available in many monasteries in the XIIIth century, some of the monks who attempted to apply and burnish the gold leaf were still struggling with many problems of illumination
The famous treatise De Arte Illuminandi and Cennino Cennini's Trattato were both of later date
These works gave directions on how to prepare and use the glair of egg, Armenian bole, stag-horn glue, and hare's foot, and on how to burnish the gold with a suitable wolf's tooth
These books might not have been too helpful, however, for the author of the De Arte Illuminandi adds, "Since experience is worth more in all this than written documents, I am not taking any special pains to explain what I mean."
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/43

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:43/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University