(Q28729)

Text includes commentary on Joshua 9 (ff. 1v-16v), Judges (ff. 17-48), Ruth (ff. 48v-53v), 1 Chronicles (ff. 54-86), 2 Chronicles (ff. 86v-112), Prayer of Manasses (f. 112), 1 Kings (ff. 112v-159v), 2 Kings (ff. 160-194), 3 Kings (ff. 194v-231v), and 4 Kings (ff. 232-252); on f. 237rv, the scribe copied three lines but his ink was running and they are blurred, presumably because the leaf was...

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Early chained binding (possibily contempory or later) of brown leather over wooden boards, beveled and cut almost flush with the book block; sewn on double bands that enter the boards at the edge and are fastened on the inside; head and tail bands also fasten into the boards; spine with four raised bands with the remains of a tab at the top; simply tooled in blind with an outer frame and two...

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Front cover detached; leather degraded and crackling, wear at the top and bottom of the spine; the binding has been tampered with and the first and last leaves now are pasted down at the front and back, perhaps when the opening and closing quires were removed; a few corners torn with very minor damage, slightly soiled at the beginning and the end.

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Watermark: Tower with merlons without a window, similar to iccard Online 100480, Wemding, 1455, 100500, no place, 1459, 100531, Kaisheim, 1464.

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Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University's Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.

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date added

2 February 2024

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date last updated

2 February 2024

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IIIF manifest

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222564~160270/manifest

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