Accession number:
MS M.112
Title:
Bible
Created:
14th century.
Binding:
Italian 19th-century three-quarter brown morocco, gilt-tooled back, tan label lettered: Biblia.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
494 leaves (2 columns, 49 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 110 mm
Provenance:
John Ruskin (ex-libris on inner cover and autograph inscription on recto of first flyleaf); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. Bible; written in Italy in the 14th century.
Decoration: penwork initials and flourishes.
Script:
small Gothic minuscule
Language:
Latin
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