(Q43506)

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Bible
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Historiated initials--France--13th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--13th century
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between 1250 and 1299
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Extent: ff. iii + 672 + iii : parchment ; 100 x 143 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Textura.
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Layout: 1-724 824(3rd and 4th bifolia, each reversed in binding) 926(-10 after f. 201) 1028 1128(-1 after f. 245; -27, 28 after f. 270) 1226(-1 and 26, respectively after ff. 270 and 294) 1324 1426 1524 1622 17-1826 1924 2024(-20 after f. 485) 2124(-19 after f. 507) 2224 2312(-6, 7 after f. 541) 2426 2522 2628 2724 2828(-27, 28). 2 columns of 47 lines ruled in lead, single bounding lines, with...
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Span folios: ff. 1-672v.
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Decoration: On f. 1, 6-line historiated initial in blue and pink, of Jerome at his desk, with a biting animal head on the prolongation of the letter. On f. 5, historiated Genesis initial the length of the text depicting the days of the Creation on alternating silver and red mandorlas; below the text space, a miniature of the Crucifixion.
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Other Decoration: 6- and 5-line parted red and blue initials with flourishing in both colors, sometimes extending into a cascade border. 2-line initials alternating red with blue flourishing and blue with red, with cascade borders.
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Some later marginalia, possibly in an English hand, s. XV, on ff. 286v, 289, 294v.
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Assigned Date: s. XIII2.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/9/2012.
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On f. 450v, a short prayer, signed and dated "Jacques LeFebvre Bazencourts 1619." Owned by the collector of Lincolniana, Oliver R. Barrett of Chicago (1873-1950).
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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