Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts C: 3

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS522

Shelfmark:

Ricketts C: 3

Title:

Incipit epistola secundi Johannis prima ad parthos
Bible

Place:

France?, Champagne?

France TGN

Date:

s. XII(2); 1150-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Figurative details, One cutting: Large historiated initial ‘Q’, 88 mm. by 103 mm., painted in colours and burnished gold enclosing a saint seated at a lectern, a dragon forming the initial’s descender, opening words “[Q]uod fuit” in a vertical line of gold capitals to the right, all within a gold border outlined in green.
Other decoration, One cutting: 2-line heading in red, recto with one capital touched in red and part of an initial in blue.
Script, One cutting: Gothic Textura.
Layout, One cutting: Part of one column (doubtless of two), ruled in plummet, 13 lines on recto, column width 100 mm.

Former Owner(s):

C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: Both the script and the decoration are close in style to the Capucins’ Bible (Paris, BnF, mss lat. 16743-46) and the Manerius Bible (Paris, Bibliothèque de Ste-Geneviève mss 8-10), both made probably in Champagne, perhaps in Troyes (Cahn 1996, II, pp. 96-98, no. 79, and pp. 99-102, no. 81). The figure of Saint John here has a close parallel with a man in identical pose in the...
One cutting: Latin.
One cutting: Recto shows II Peter 3: 14-17, a few lines from the end of the epistle (traces of a red explicit are visible at the lower right). Typical incipt of John I is "Quod fuit ab initio".
Explicit, One cutting: Quod fuit ab initio.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/RickettsC3_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_RickettsC3_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington