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Bible

mid-13th century
Place of ManufactureParis (?), France
Medium/TechniqueTempera and ink (some modern) on parchment; bindings of brown morocco over boards with gilding
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 16.5 x 12 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number34.146
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
InscriptionsSigned by two 19th-century : "Shillabar" and "Dr. Hunt, Nov. 1891."
Provenance19th century, Shillaber [with signature]. By November 1891, with Dr. Hunt [with his signature "Dr. Hunt, Nov. 1891"]. By 1934, with Denman W. Ross (1853-1935), Cambridge, MA; 1934, gift of Denman W. Ross. (Accession date: April 5, 1934)
f 221v-222
about 1250–1300
View: f.1
16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
Detail: folio 1, verso
late 13th century
Detail: folio 39, recto
Saint Augustine
mid-13th century
View: Open book
mid-15th century
View: Folio 75
about 1300–50
Book of Hours (variant of Use of Paris, and Use of Rome)
probably 1275–1300 (France), with additions in 1350–1400 (Italy)
Folios 133v-134r, historiated initial with Christ emerging from the tomb
Liberale da Verona
about 1450–75