Accession number:
MS M.719-720
Title:
New Testament illustrations
Created:
Germany, probably in or around Strasbourg, ca. 1430.
Binding:
Red velvet.
Credit:
Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., 1927.
Description:
M.719: 6 leaves, bound : paper, ill. ; 300 x 210 mm.
Provenance:
M.719: Owned by Henry Gee Barnard (ex libris with date 1817); Sir Thomas Brooke (ca. 1895); purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. in 1927.
Notes:
Ms. New Testament illustrations; written and illustrated in Germany, probably in or around Strasbourg, ca. 1430.
These illustrations have been proposed to originally constitute the initial leaves of the manuscript now known as Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg im Breisgau. MS 334, a manuscript of 49 leaves--Cf. files.
The watermark of the Morgan and Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg im Breisgau leaves resembles Briquet 14925-26, which have production dates of ca. 1390-1410--Cf. files.
M.719: Decoration: 16 colored pen and wash drawings, 2 to a page.
M.720: Decoration: 21 colored pen and wash drawings, 2 to a page.
Script:
hybrid mix of Upper Rhine bastarda with elements of 14th-century textura.
Language:
Tiles in German
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