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Concluding Volume of a Bible
Unknownabout 1260 - 1270
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Details
- Title: Concluding Volume of a Bible
- Creator: Unknown
- Date: about 1260 - 1270
- Location Created: Arras, France
- Physical Dimensions: Leaf: 46.7 x 34.9 cm (18 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Tempera, gold leaf, and pen and black ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with reddish-brown pigskin
- Object Type: Manuscript
- Number: Ms. Ludwig I 9
- Inscription: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed on second flyleaf, upper left corner, in pen, by Sydney Cockerell, "Bought at Sotheby's July 30, 1920, lot 1130. It was then in a shabby English binding of blue cloth with back & corner,s of black morocco of about the middle of the 19th century. The seller was the Revd Joseph Degen of St. Saviour's Catholic Church, Coalville, Leistershre to whom it had been recently sent anonymously in response to an appeal for building funds." Inscribed in upper center, in pen, by Sydney Cockerell, "Maccabees I & II & New Testament. 35 leaves, being all those on which were illuminated initials. There are 56 of these, of which 30 are historiated. From the Cistercian nunnery of Marquette near Lille, as is shown by the scratching of the name Marq on the gold backgrounds of many initials, as well as on the margin of f. 30 by a hand almost or quite contemporary with the back. See also a sketch of a girl's head on the lower margin of f. 9." Inscribed in the upper right corner, in pen, "Sydney C. Cockerell, Cambridge July 30 1920". Initials on fols. 2v (4 times), 4, 14, 15v, 19, 33v (on 2 initials), and 35 have "Marq" scratched into gold leaf. Inscribed fol. 30, right margin, scratched into vellum, "Marq moto(?)". Inscribed fol. 9, lower margin, a faint sketch of a head.
- Culture: Franco-Flemish
- Classification: Manuscripts
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