Leaf from the Teutonic Knights Bible thumbnail 1
Request to view

This object can be requested via email from the Prints & Drawings Study Room

Leaf from the Teutonic Knights Bible

Manuscript Cutting
ca. 1300 (made)
Place of origin

Leaf from a Bible (3 Esdras), present-day Belgium (Liège), ca. 1300.
A duplicate number MS.748 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.

Delve deeper

Discover more about this object
read The Teutonic Knights Bible Many of the books produced in Europe during the medieval and Renaissance periods contained religious texts. Often beautifully decorated and illustrated, these were made for a variety of uses in churches and monasteries.They could be biblical books, choir books (to be sung from in church), ...

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLeaf from the Teutonic Knights Bible
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Leaf from a Bible (3 Esdras), present-day Belgium (Liège), ca. 1300.
A duplicate number MS.748 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.
Production typeUnique
Object history
Part of a Bible in three volumes which probably belonged to the house of the Teutonic Knights in Maastricht (Nieuwe Biesen), according to an inscription on a leaf from vol. II (see London, British Library, Add. MS 32058, fol. 9). All leaves now in the V&A collection belong to volume II. The second volume was dismantled by the time the museum acquired a first batch of leaves in 1883 from W.H. James Weale (9036A to 9036Z, 9036Z/A, 9036F/1). Another batch was bought in 1906 (D.544 to D.599-1906). No part of volume I is known to survive (Genesis to II Chronicles) and volume III is now Oxford, Keble College, MS 69.

Part of cuttings purchased in batches from William Henry James Weale in 1883, 95 on 9 April 1883, 258 on 17 April 1883, 20 on 20 February, for the total sum of £96.7.2 (now Museum nos 8972-9042). These included 27 leaves and 1 cutting from the Teutonic Knights Bible, vol. II.

Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: Museum nos 9036A to 9036Z, 9036Z/A, 9036F/1, D.544 to D.599-1906.

Cuttings from the same manuscript in other collections: London, British Library, Add. MS 32058, ff. 9-22.

Vol. III (containing the Old Testament): Oxford, Keble College, MS 69.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Watson, R. Illuminated manuscripts and their makers. An account based on the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. London, 2003. pp. 86-87.
  • Watson, Rowan. Vandals and Enthusiasts: Views of Illumination in the Nineteenth Century, London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1995
  • Catalogue of Miniatures, Leaves, and Cuttings from Illuminated Manuscripts. Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, by S.C. Cockerell and C. Harcourt Smith (London: HMSO, 1923, 2nd edition). pp. 60-65.
  • Judith Oliver, Gothic manuscript illumination in the diocese of Liège (c. 1250-c. 1330), Leuven: Peeters, 1988. I, pp. 185-188, II, pl. 191-194.
  • Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts : Part II, Miniatures, leaves, and cuttings, by S.C. Cockerell and E.F. Strange (London: HMSO, 1908, 1st edition). pp. 68-73.
  • Malcolm B. Parkes,The medieval manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford: a descriptive catalogue with summary descriptions of the Greek and Oriental manuscripts (London: Scolar Press, 1979). MS69 (vol. III of this Bible).
Other number
748 - Cancelled number
Collection
Accession number
D.546-1906

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
Download as: JSONIIIF Manifest