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Bible, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy (Tuscany), third quarter of the twelfth century]
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
a very large leaf, 574mm. by 368mm., two columns, 50 lines, a fine rounded late Carolingian minuscule (praegothica textualis), Esther 16:10 to end, prologue to Ezra (Stegmüller 330), Ezra to 1:8, one word in Greek majuscules (column 1, line 34), headings (in red) and first words of texts in calligraphic capitals, two large decorated initials, one 7-line, the other indented over 18 lines, initials in yellow infilled with elaborate painted leafy, white-vine and interlaced designs in colours, minor wear from use as a wrapper for documents dated 1548-50, tear in inner margin, hessian binding
Provenance
provenance
Norman Davy, probably the physicist and bibliographer (1893-1973), bought in Siena, March 1913 (marginal note on verso); sale in these rooms, 26 January 1959, lot 45; Alan Thomas, his cats. 5 (1959), no.8, and 9 (1961), no.18; bought from Sam Fogg; Schøyen MS.657.
Catalogue Note
text
For the style of decoration, cf. E. Garrison, Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting, II, 1956, pp.47-68, and K. Berg, Studies in Tuscan Twelfth-Century Illumination, 1968, esp. pls.189-92.