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Bible

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 119

Harvard University, HOLLIS (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Bible
Shelfmarks MS Typ 119
Material vellum
Place of Origin Northern France
Script, Hands

Written in Northern France, in a formal gothic book hand in two columns of 30 lines each. 

Current Condition

Dimensions 49 cm
More about the Current Condition

In a brown cloth 4-flap case, 51 x 38 cm.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

There are one very large historiated initial (beginning of Genesis) and 2 large initials in colors and gold (prologue to Genesis and prologue to Deuteronomy). Other initials and headlines are in red and blue with pen-work decoration.

Bibliography

  • Illuminated and calligraphic manuscripts (1955), 14 (no. 26 and plate 15).

  • Bond and Faye, 260.

  •  L. Light, The Bible in the twelfth century, 16-17, with further bibliography and locations of leaves from this Bible in other libraries.
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