(Q16949)
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28 November 2023
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Cutting from a 15th-century Bible : in Latin].
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Bible (Manuscript Boston Public Library. MS pb Med.175)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Belgium
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1475 and 1499
15. century
1475Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 64 x 64 mm
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Ms. fragment.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Script: Written in a Gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: 11-line initial [A] in blue with white filigree on gold, historiated with Aaron (at left, in Bishop's robes holding a censer) and Moses, plagues of frogs and locusts on the ground, both figures gazing at the face of God in the heavenly aperture above.
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Binding: Housed in an oversized folder. Formerly attached to vellum sheet 230 x 175 mm
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Origin: Written in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
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Provenance: No. 37 in dealer's hand on vellum sheet, probably the leaf's number in the dealer's portfolio, as on BPL pb. Med. 174. Same dealer's handwritten description on the vellum sheet reads "Flemish or Dutch: late xv century/ Initial "A," showing Aaron (with censer) and Moses before the Almighty; also, the plagues of locusts and of frogs. [Exodus, chaps. viii & x.]"
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Maggs.
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Call number: MS pb Med.175.
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Former call number: MS 1600.
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4 December 2023
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