Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 17

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS565

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 17

Title:

Bible

Place:

Austria

Austria TGN

Date:

s. XV(2/4); 1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Figurative details, 3 leaves: Each leaf with a very large 6-line illuminated initial, approximately 67 mm. by 69 mm., with a three-quarter illuminated floral border, including two perching birds.
Other decoration, 3 leaves: Rubrics in red, versal initials and running titles in alternating red and blue letters; second leaf with a 2-line initial in blue with penwork decoration in lines of burnished gold.
Script, 3 leaves: Semi-cursive Book Hand.
Layout, 3 leaves: 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 30 lines, prickings in outer margins only, each column 330 mm. by 98 mm. with 22 mm. between columns.

Former Owner(s):

C. L. Ricketts, bought from Erik von Scherling, Leiden, cat. 11 (November 1930), no. 953; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

C. L. Ricketts, bought from Erik von Scherling, Leiden, cat. 11 (November 1930), no. 953; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Erik von Scherling WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: Both the unexpectedly informal script of the leaves and their meandering tendrils of narrow illuminated plant stems, broken by flashes of highly burnished gold, are all consistent with book production in Austria, especially in Vienna. A comparable Latin Bible, from Genesis to Psalms, is Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 1187, illuminated in Vienna around 1440 by the Albrecht Master, who also...
Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 620.
3 leaves: The leaves here show traces of old folio numbers. They are: (a) fol. 153, capitula list for Deuteronomy; (b) fol. 185, prologue Tandem finito . . .to . . . debeamus aure transireStegmüller no. 311) and the opening of the capitula list for Joshua; and (c) fol. 186, the end of the capitula list and Joshua to 1: 17. An entire Bible on such a scale would perhaps fill about 700 to 800...
3 leaves: Latin.
3 leaves: The leaves here show traces of old folio numbers. They are: (a) fol. 153, capitula list for Deuteronomy; (b) fol. 185, prologue "Tandem finito . . ." to ". . . debeamus aure transire" (Stegmüller no. 311) and the opening of the capitula list for Joshua; and (c) fol. 186, the end of the capitula list and Joshua to 1: 17.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts17_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts17_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington