Manuscripts from France
6 items
- Description:
- A leaf from a Vulgate Bible, circa 1240, collected in a portfolio of manuscript and printed book leaves assembled by Otto F. Ege.
- Date:
- 13th Century
- Description:
- A leaf from a Vulgate Bible, circa 1240, collected in a portfolio of manuscript and printed book leaves assembled by Otto F. Ege.
- Date:
- 13th Century
- Description:
- Recto contains 15 handwritten short-lines in brown and red ink on vellum; illuminated initials and a large hand-drawn floral motif in the right margin. Verso contains 15 handwritten short-lines in brown and red ink with illuminated initials.
Script: Gothic Miniscule.
Hand-drawn floral motif in blue, green and red ink with heavy gold illumination; several illuminated letters on red and blue ink ground throughout.
- Date:
- 15th Century
- Description:
- Recto contains 15 handwritten short-lines in brown and red ink on vellum; illuminated initials and a large hand-drawn floral motif in the right margin. Verso contains 15 handwritten short-lines in brown and red ink with illuminated initials.
Script: Gothic Miniscule.
Hand-drawn floral motif in blue, green and red ink with heavy gold illumination; several illuminated letters on red and blue ink ground throughout.
- Date:
- 15th Century
- Description:
- The Missal is the Mass-book from which the services were read. This leaf shows an interesting arrangement of text with musical notations. It is written on vellum in liturgical black letter, decorated with a large flourished multicolor initial, along with several red and blue colored pen work initials.
- Date:
- 15th Century
- Description:
- The Missal is the Mass-book from which the services were read. This leaf shows an interesting arrangement of text with musical notations. It is written on vellum in liturgical black letter, decorated with a large flourished multicolor initial, along with several red and blue colored pen work initials.
- Date:
- 15th Century
