University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1065
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS886
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1065
- Title:
- Bible
- Place:
- England?
- Date:
- between 1240 and 1250
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 356 leaves : parchment ; 178 x 117 (130 x 84) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843
Dixon, C. W. S
Roseman, Charles E., Jr., -1952
- Note:
- Ms. gatherings.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 356; 1-1312 1416 1510 1612 172 1812 1910 20-2412 256 2611(12-1) 27-3012 3113(12+1); catchwords on some quires; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 57-62 lines, except for the Interpretationes, which is written in 3 columns of 66-67 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic book hand.
Decoration: Approximately 77 painted initials, many with mythical and other creatures and marginal extensions, by the Gautier Lebaude Atelier or similar to the work of that workshop; opening initial of Genesis the full height of the page but damaged and repaired (f. 3v); first leaf of the New Testament (first leaf of gathering 26, before f. 285) probably had similar ornamentation but is now...
Binding: Pulled from an early 19th-century vellum binding, with gilt tooling and spine title Biblia sacra manuscripta.
Origin: Probably written in England, between 1240 and 1250.
Sold in the collection of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (armorial bookplate inside upper cover, with shelfmark VI. H. b. 3) at auction by Evans (London) to Pickering, 31 July 1844.
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 328 (Jan. 1914), no. 556.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 July 1933, lot 227; purchased by C. W. S. Dixon (Newport, Shropshire).
Sold by McLeish (London) to Charles E. Roseman, Jr. (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), 1933.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9941704573503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3th8bs22/manifest
- Holding Institution:
