(Q4714)
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Bible.
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Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843
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Dixon, C. W. S
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Roseman, Charles E., Jr., -1952
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Illumination of books and manuscripts
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Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens
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[between 1240 and 1250]
13. century
1240Gregorian
1250Gregorian
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Extent: 356 leaves : parchment ; 178 x 117 (130 x 84) mm
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Ms. gatherings.
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Origin: Probably written in England, between 1240 and 1250.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Collation: Parchment, 356; 1-13¹² 14¹⁶ 15¹⁰ 16¹² 17² 18¹² 19¹⁰ 20-24¹² 25⁶ 26¹¹(12-1) 27-30¹² 31¹³(12+1); catchwords on some quires; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto.
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Binding: Pulled from an early 19th-century vellum binding, with gilt tooling and spine title Biblia sacra manuscripta.
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Script: Written in a Gothic book hand.
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Decoration: Approximately 77 painted initials, many with mythical and other creatures and marginal extensions, by the Gautier Lebaude Atelier or similar to the work of that workshop; opening initial of Genesis the full height of the page but damaged and repaired (f. 3v); first leaf of the New Testament (first leaf of gathering 26, before f. 285) probably had similar ornamentation but is now...
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Layout: Written in 2 columns of 57-62 lines, except for the Interpretationes, which is written in 3 columns of 66-67 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
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Sold in the collection of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (armorial bookplate inside upper cover, with shelfmark VI. H. b. 3) at auction by Evans (London) to Pickering, 31 July 1844.
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Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
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Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 328 (Jan. 1914), no. 556.
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Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 July 1933, lot 227; purchased by C. W. S. Dixon (Newport, Shropshire).
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Sold by McLeish (London) to Charles E. Roseman, Jr. (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), 1933.
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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