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Leaf from a Bible

Manuscript Cutting
c. 1240-1275 (made)
Place of origin
France (made)
Paris (made)

Illuminated manuscript depicting two columns of text written in black ink with red highlight throughout. The column on the left has a blue and red initial 'N' with flourishes near the bottom and there is a set of blue and red numbers on the line above it. There is a red 'D' and a blue 'I' on top of the page. Around the two columns there are sets of words with red highlights (marginalia)

Object details

Categories
Manuscript Cutting
Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance
Object type
Manuscript cutting
TitleLeaf from a Bible
Materials and techniques
pigments and ink on parchment
Parchment
Ink
Pigments
Illumination
Writing
Brief description
Leaf from a Bible, France (Paris), middle or 3rd quarter of the 13th century.
Physical description
Illuminated manuscript depicting two columns of text written in black ink with red highlight throughout. The column on the left has a blue and red initial 'N' with flourishes near the bottom and there is a set of blue and red numbers on the line above it. There is a red 'D' and a blue 'I' on top of the page. Around the two columns there are sets of words with red highlights (marginalia)
Dimensions
  • Width: 279.4mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1924)
  • Length: 177.8mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1924)
Object history
Bought from R.F. Martin Esq, 9 Portman St, W, received on 19 August 1924, together with six other cuttings (CIRC.719 to 727-1924). Total price paid: £10.10.0. (Information from the Departmental Circulation Register).

Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: Museum nos Circ.2-1924, Circ.381-1924, Circ.727-1924, Circ.860-1924, Circ.861-1924, Circ.492.1925, Circ.853-1926, and Circ.319-1927.
Cuttings from the same manuscript in other collections: Bloomington (IN), Lilly Library, 2 leaves; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. bib. c. 1, ff. 6-8.
Parent manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. bib. d. 8.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1924
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1924
  • O. Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Vol. 3: British, Irish and Icelandic Schools (Oxford, 1973). p. 45, no. 488 (parent manuscript, considered English).
  • P. Kidd, 'V&A Museum Cuttings and Leaves Photographed', in AMARC Newsletter, 42 (May 2004), p. 4.
  • P. Kidd, 'Leaves from a Thirteenth-Century Bible', in The Bodleian Library Record 35, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Autumn 2022), pp. 198-204.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.727-1924

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Record createdApril 17, 2013
Record URL
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