Accession number:
MS M.494
Title:
Bible
Created:
Paris, France, third quarter of the 13th century.
Binding:
Lower cover is 14th-century French brown morocco, tooled, with Visconti emblems; upper cover is a late 19th- or early 20th-century copy of the lower cover.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description:
639 leaves (2 columns, 40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 390 x 285 mm
Provenance:
Probably owned by Isabelle de France (1348-1372), daughter of King Jean II and the wife of Gian Galeazzo Visconti; Baron Hugo de Bethmann collection, Paris; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Léon Gruel in Paris in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. Bible; written and illuminated in Paris, France, in the third quarter of the thirteenth century.
Artists: second hand of Hospitaller Master and third hand of workshop of Hospitaller Master.
Decoration: 76 historiated initials.
Script:
textura
Language:
French
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