Coll. 170. MS. 348. BIBLE, with prologues and additions.
Item Overview
- Title
- Coll. 170. MS. 348. BIBLE, with prologues and additions.
- Uniform title
- BIBLE, Old and New Testaments.
- Date Created
- XIII med
- Date
- 1201/1300
- Place of Origin
- Spain
- Language
- Latin
- Collection
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Notes
- Summary
- A Latin manuscript Bible containing both the Old and New Testaments, ca. 1400. Written in small Gothic minuscules in vellum and beautifully illuminated in red and blue throughout with many large and elaborately executed capitals.
- Description
- Written in Spain in the middle of the thirteenth century. In the possession of a Dominican convent or friar before the end of the century; front pastedown top, half cropped, “. . . -ia ordinis predicatorum.” In England before the fourteenth century; English hands on ff. 1r-v, 387r-v, front pastedown. On f. 386 lower margin, erased note of accounts in fourteenth-century anglicana, “... sol[idos] . . . sol[idos] . . . Ego frater . . . sororem . . . sorores. ...” On f. 1v top, an erased note. Paper label “11” on the spine. Belonged to Isaac Foot; his bookplate, f. 1v. Came to UCLA with the Foot Collection in 1960.