The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1080

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9839

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1080

Title:

Bible

Scribe:

Gentiluzi, Niccolò Berti Martini de', approximately 1388-1468

Niccolò Berti Martini de' Gentiluzi WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1452-1453

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 489 + i : parchment ; 243 x 336 mm

Former Owner(s):

Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928

Herschel V. Jones WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: 12(1 is pastedown) 24 3-3610 3712 3810(through f. 367) 39-4710 486(-6; through f. 462) 4910 508 518(+1). Catchwords horizontally in the inside lower margin. 2 columns of 56 lines ruled in light brown ink, double bounding lines at the sides and single lines top and bottom; additional double rule in upper margin for running headlines.
Decoration: Full page miniature of mediocre quality, f. 1v, added perhaps late in the fifteenth century, of the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Other Decoration: Genesis initial I the length of the text and almost the width of the first column in gold strapwork on white vine stem with a bust of Moses holding the tablets of the Law; on the same page, full border of white vine stem with birds, dragonflies, putti and a coat of arms. Similar opening page to the New Testament, somewhat rubbed. Similar initials for the books and prologues...
Signed and dated 14 times, with dates between 1452 and 1453, by Niccolò Berti Martini de' Gentiluzi (approximately 1388-1468) often with a motto (cf. f. 91, "Nichil inpossibile est amori"), and twice with the motto alone.
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
Coat of arms on f. 5, azure, a castle with 4 towers argent. Sotheby's, 31 July 1912, n. 197 to Quaritch. Quaritch Cat. 321 (December 1912) n. 253. Belonged to Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928) of Minneapolis.

Keyword:

historiated initials

coats of arms

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

decorated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862070

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52301/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens