The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1073

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9836

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1073

Title:

Bible

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1250 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 598 (+ ff. 163 bis and 278 bis) : parchment ; 140 x 193 mm

Former Owner(s):

Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928

Herschel V. Jones WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-1024 1116 1218(through f. 273) 13-2424 2522 2612 274. 2 columns of 45 lines, ruled in lead, with top, middle and bottom 3 lines full across; additional double rules in all 4 margins; slash prick marks visible in the 3 outer margins of some leaves.
Decoration: Eighty-two historiated initials of good quality, 10- to 7-line in blue or maroon on grounds of these colors with some gold, orange and green, and enclosed by narrow gold frames; border extensions with rinceau and biting animals.
Other Decoration: 9- to 5-line initials in white-patterned blue and maroon, with touches of gold, orange and green; 2-line initials alternating red with blue flourishing and blue with red, and continuing into a red and blue cascade border.
Artwork attributed by Branner, Manuscript Painting pp. 81 and 220 to the same atelier as Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, M 17.3. Very faint lead sketches for the illuminator on ff. 201v, 206, 219, 223v, 229v.
Assigned Date: s. XIII2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
On f. 597v, in a fifteenth century hand, "Iohannes verenogerneii." Belonged to Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928) of Minneapolis.

Keyword:

historiated initials

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862067

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50761/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens