The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1070
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9833
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1070
- Title:
- Bible
- Artist:
- Soissons Atelier
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1240 and 1260
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. iv + i + 671 + iv : parchment ; 100 x 144 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 122 224 3-422 524(-24; no loss of text) 624 7-822 9-1024 1128 126 1314(-14; no loss of text) 1428(+ a leaf in the second half, possibly the last; this quire contains the psalter) 15-1724 1826 1924 2026(-25; no loss of text) 2124 2226(-23; no loss of text) 23-2526 2622 2718 28-2926. 2 columns of 44 lines, ruled in lead, double rule across the upper margin for the running headlines...
Decoration: Eleven 7- to 4-line historiated initials, with border extensions in blue, maroon, orange and gold and containing an animal.
Other Decoration: 7- to 3-line initials in white-patterned blue and dusky pink with touches of orange and gold, many with partial borders which sometimes include biting animal heads.
A "cor." note on f. 254. Attribution by Branner, Manuscript Painting, pp. 78, 216 to the Soissons atelier.
Assigned Date: s. XIIImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/6/2012.
A seventeenth or eighteenth century hand has noted on f. v verso, "Scripta fuit haec biblia per do. dalmat. religios. piperac anno domini 1344 [sic] 25 julii"; in the sixteenth century a note was added, "Biblia sacra manuscripta antiquissima ad usum fratrum capucinorum conventus Thiernensis"; Pébrac is in the Haute-Loire, Thiers in Puy-de-Dôme. Belonged to Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) of... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862064
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52392/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
