Bible (DS9832) (Q43500)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620632, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862063, mssHM 1069)
- Bible
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Bible (DS9832) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620632, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862063, mssHM 1069) |
|
Statements
Bible
0 references
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902
0 references
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
0 references
Historiated initials--Italy--13th century
0 references
between 1240 and 1260
13. century
1240Gregorian
1260Gregorian
0 references
Extent: ff. i + 358 + i : parchment ; 157 x 240 mm
0 references
Support: Parchment.
0 references
Script: Gothic.
0 references
Layout: 1-2610 27-288(through f. 276) 29-3510 368(-4, 6, 7, 8; plus one leaf each attached to stubs of 6 and 8; text is complete) 37-396(these 6 leaves blank). Catchwords in the center of the lower margin or the inside lower margin, trimmed except on quires 25-26 and 33-35. 2 columns of 60 lines ruled in lead with single bounding lines at the sides, triple bounding lines between the columns...
0 references
The scribe or artist Vivianus (Sanus?) of Cremona wrote his name and home town in gold letters in the margins next to the illuminations on ff. 1 and 3v.
0 references
Decoration: Eighty-six historiated or ornamented initials, 17- to 5-line, usually in shaded blue, green, orange or beige, infilled with historiation or stylized vegetation in the same colors, the whole set against stippled gold grounds, outlined in shaded green, sometimes with the letter itself or its extension formed of a biting animal.
0 references
Other Decoration: Initials for the prologues usually as a gold letter on a white-patterned blue and beige ground, 11- to 5-line. In Job, Psalms and Ecclesiastes (ff. 148-197v) and in the New Testament (ff. 277-350), 2-line initials alternating gold with blue flourishing and blue with red, and 1-line initials alternating blue and gold, except in Psalms, which alternates 1-line initials in blue...
0 references
Assigned Date: s. XIIImed.
0 references
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/6/2012.
0 references
On f. 3v, "Materiam superat opus excellens viviani/ Cuius facta probant mores in pectore sani." A 12-line erased inscription, s. XV(?), on f. 350v begins "Ista biblia est conventui Velletri..." In the W. F. Fowle sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 140 to Samuel Addington; his sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1886, lot 29 to B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 3 with a plate of...
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references