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Bible, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy (probably Tuscany), mid-twelfth century]
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
a very large bifolium, 514mm. by 344mm., two columns, 40 lines, a fine large rounded Carolingian minuscule (praegothica textualis), (a) Judges 19:9 – 20:29 and (b) capitula to Kings and Kings 1:1-6, 2-line initials and running-titles in red, 2-line incipit and opening words in calligraphic lombardic majuscules in red, very large decorated initial, 13-line and extending to full height of the page, in complex interlace and geometric design including a large bird and infilled with elaborate foliage in colours including four birds, all on a blue ground outlined in red, worn (especially on the page with initial), creased and edges defective from use as a wrapper for documents apparently dated 1567, hessian binding
Provenance
provenance
Bernard Rosenthal, bought in 1959 from Aldo Olschki (1893-1963); Quaritch, Bookhands III, cat.1088 (1988), no.62; Schøyen MS 80.
Catalogue Note
text
Leaves with very similar decoration in Washington are described in C. Nordenfalk, et al., Medieval & Renaissance Miniatures in the National Gallery of Art, 1975, pp.6-11, no. 2; and the Korner sale in our rooms, 19 June 1990, lot 2.