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Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany--1400-1450
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Bible. Mark--Commentaries
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Bible. Matthew--Commentaries
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Extent: 272 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 40 cm.
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Written in a compressed gothic script in 2 columns of 54 lines; 5 historiated initials (ff. 3r, 12v, 19v, 23v, 84r) and numerous large decorated initials and foliate borders in the first half; replaced by conventional pen-work initials in the second half.
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Titles derived from explicit (f. 198v) and caption (f. 199r).
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Written and illuminated in Germany, possibly at the Carthusian Monastery of St. Barbara in Cologne.
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Bound in 19th-cent. three-quarter half red goatskin with marble paper over boards; 15th-cent. embroidery of standing male figure (Albertus Magnus?) attached to inside front pastedown.
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In a tray case, 42 cm.
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Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
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Sale in France or Belgium, ca. 1870, lot 4; Jonathan Peckover (bookplate); Algerina Peckover (bookplate); her sale (London, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1927, lot 33); to Maggs; bought by Richardson.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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