The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1074

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9837

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1074

Title:

Bible

Artist:

Gautier Lebaube Atelier

Gautier Lebaube Atelier WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1250 and 1275

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 569 + ii : parchment ; 119 x 174 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ives, Brayton, 1840-1914

Brayton C. Ives WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-924 1024(-21, no loss of text) 118 12-1424 1522 1624 1724(-24, no loss of text) 1824 194(through f. 416) 2020 21-2324 2424(-24, through f. 530, no loss of text) 2524 2614. 2 columns of 47-51 lines in the bible and 3 columns of 51 lines in the Interpretationes, ruled in lead; additional double rules in the upper and lower margins; slash prick marks visible in the lower margin of a few...
Decoration: Eighty historiated initials, 12- to 3-line, in blue, maroon and gold with border extensions in the same colors and frequently surmounted by birds.
Other Decoration: Prologues introduced by 3-line rinceau initials, often surmounted by birds; 9- to 4-line gold initials on white-patterned blue and maroon grounds/infilling; 2-line initials alternating red with blue flourishing or blue with red, and continuing into red and blue cascade borders. Initials on ff. 405v and in the Interpretations of Hebrew Names in gold on white-patterned beige or...
Attributed by Branner, Manuscript Painting p. 213 to the Gautier Lebaube atelier in Paris.
Assigned Date: s. XIII3/4.
In the foliation, ff. 569 (+ 159 bis and 416 bis; the numbers 266 and 531 omitted).
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
On f. 530 (erased), s. XV/XVI, "Ista biblia est de libreria magistri Iacobi morelli notarii et secretarii domini nostri regis. Morel," followed by his notary mark; the name and mark appear also on ff. 221, 250, 569. Erased circular bookstamp on f. 1 with impression through onto the following leaves. Bookplate of Brayton Ives (1840-1914); his sale, American Art Association, New York, 5 March...

Keyword:

decorated initials

Bookplates

historiated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862068

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50766/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens