Accession number:
MS M.688b
Title:
[Gospel of St. John].
Created:
[1930-1939]
Binding:
Unbound in clamshell boxcase.
Credit:
Purchase; Mrs. John B. Walker; 1964.
Description:
38 leaves (2 columns, 28 lines) : purple vellum, ill. ; 375 x 258 mm
Provenance:
Mrs. John B. Walker, New York; purchased from Mrs. Walker in 1964.
Notes:
Ms. gospel of St. John; written and illuminated in New York, United States, in the 1930s.
Text: portions of the first six chapters of the Gospel of St. John.
Decoration: calligraphic manuscript written in gold uncials on vellum stained with Tyrian purple, in the style of The Golden Gospels of Henry VIII, MS M.23.
Scribe and artist: Sister Olive Frances Rhinelander.
Script:
uncials
Language:
English
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