Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 2

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS521

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 2

Title:

Giant Bible, Atlantic Bible

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

s. XII(ex); 1185-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, One leaf: Capitulanumbers in red; 25 large initials, mostly 3-line, either in color (red, blue, green or yellow) with contrasting infill and flourishing, or in highly burnished gold on colored panels infilled with delicate colored foliage.
Script, One leaf: Romanesque Textura.
Layout, One leaf: 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 50 lines, each column 398 mm. by 118 mm. with 25 mm. between columns, script beginning above top ruled line.

Former Owner(s):

C. L. Ricketts, bought from Barroux, 1930 (with a second fragment, see below); acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: Three other leaves from the same manuscript are in the library of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, given by Jean Masson in 1925, with parts of Ecclesiasticus and Job, the prologue to the Gospels, and the epistle to the Galatians (Mn. Mas 22, 23 and 25; Cahn and Stirnemann 2007, p. 10, fig. 2). They are perhaps from the second volume of a 2-volume set. They are so remarkably...
Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 618.
One leaf: Latin.
One leaf: The leaf here is from Ephesians 1: 11 to 6: 4.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts2_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts2_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington