Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts
Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts
Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Lot Closed
June 15, 01:06 PM GMT
Estimate
50 - 100 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Leaf from a miniature Bible
Manuscript in Latin on vellum. [France (Paris?), 13th century, first half (c.1220–40)]
Single leaf, c.195×130mm; written above top line in two columns of 57 lines (c.130×80mm), in a very small gothic bookhand, capitals stroked in red; chapters begin with initials alternately red or blue, but do not start on a new line, with their number in red ink in the adjacent margin, with wide margins preserving guide-letters and numbers for the initials and chapter numbers; foliated in late medieval Arabic numerals ‘.76.’ on the recto and ‘[l]xxvi.’ in Roman numerals on the verso.
The text is Judges 12:1-15:18, which largely concerns the life of Samson.
LITERATURE:
Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts (Cayce, SC, 2013), Handlist no. 60, citing leaves at six American institutions.
PROVENANCE:
From the same manuscript as lot 7
Otto Ege/Philip Duschnes
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Gallery purchase in 1940 (1940:355.3)