Accession number:
MS M.423
Title:
Lectionary
Created:
Italy, perhaps in Capua, 1299.
Binding:
Formerly bound in German 19th-century stamped calf with ciselée Crucifixion on the upper cover and two brass clasps; rearranged and rebound in brown levant morocco and heavy boards by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in May 1933; lettered: Lectionary - Greek - 1299 A.D.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1910.
Description:
215 leaves (2 columns, 27-28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 200 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. Gospel lectionary; written, illustrated, and decorated in southern Italy, perhaps in Capua, in 1299.
Execution date is inferred from the Easter Table.
Decoration: 4 full-page drawings in brown ink; decorative headpieces throughout the text.
The illumination of M.423 is unfinished. The miniature on fol. 2r (Christ, the Virgin, and John Baptist) is unfinished.
The miniature of Evangelist Matthew is missing.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Greek
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