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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3389

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.175

Title:

Cutting from a 15th-century Bible : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Belgium]

Belgium TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 64 x 64 mm

Former Owner(s):

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 11-line initial [A] in blue with white filigree on gold, historiated with Aaron (at left, in Bishop's robes holding a censer) and Moses, plagues of frogs and locusts on the ground, both figures gazing at the face of God in the heavenly aperture above.
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder. Formerly attached to vellum sheet 230 x 175 mm
Origin: Written in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Provenance: No. 37 in dealer's hand on vellum sheet, probably the leaf's number in the dealer's portfolio, as on BPL pb. Med. 174. Same dealer's handwritten description on the vellum sheet reads "Flemish or Dutch: late xv century/ Initial "A," showing Aaron (with censer) and Moses before the Almighty; also, the plagues of locusts and of frogs. [Exodus, chaps. viii & x.]"
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Maggs.
Call number: MS pb Med.175.
Former call number: MS 1600.

Keyword:

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Manuscripts, Medieval

Belgium

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Bible

Gothic scripts

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444724

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library