Bible (DS9841) (Q43527)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620723, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862072, mssHM 1084)
- Bible
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Bible (DS9841) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620723, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862072, mssHM 1084) |
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Bible
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Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
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Historiated initials--Italy--14th century
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Marginalia (annotations)--14th century
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between 1300 and 1350
14. century
1300Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Extent: ff. ii + 679 (+77 bis, 182 bis) + ii : parchment ; 203 x 267 mm
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Latin Bible written in Italy, perhaps Bologna, in the first half of the fourteenth century.
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ff. 1-679 verso. Support: Parchment. Layout: 116(+1) 2-516 6-912 1010(through f. 138) 11-1812(through f. 233) 196 20-2110(through f. 259) 22-2312 248(through f. 291) 25-2916 30-3912 408 41-4816 496(through f. 633) 50-5310 548(-7, 8). Catchwords in inside lower margin, most in brown ink frames. 2 columns of 43-45 lines; 3 columns of 44 lines in the Interpretationes. Ruled in lead, single...
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Decoration: Seventy-five historiated initials, usually 9-line, opening most books of the Bible and a few of the prologues, in Bolognese style, with dark tones of blue, olive green, maroon, red, beige and ochre; stylized acanthus leaf extensions into the margins; frequent, but mostly illegible, notes to the illuminator in the margins. Initials to the prologues, 8- to 3-line (usually 4-line), as...
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Contemporary corrections throughout. On f. 1, added probably in the eighteenth century, a full page painting of an arch from which hangs a red banner inscribed, "Veteris Novique Testamenti Libri [sic] Omnes in dono accepi ab Ill.mo ac Rev.mo Viro D. G. Vicecomiti"; below the banner, 2 putti supporting the Visconti arms. Added at the same time, f. 2, a U-shaped border in colors with 3 roundels...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
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Belonged to a member of the Visconti family of Milan in the eighteenth century; their arms added on ff. 1, 2, when the book was given away. The added ex libris "G. Visconti" also appears in a fourteenth century New Testament (Oxford, Bod. Lib., Canonici Bibl. Lat. 18). Possibly in the collection of Gerardo Sagredo of Venice, ca. 1710, and to be identified with n. 31 of his printed catalogue...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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