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Source Description
This pocket-size Bible was created around the middle of the thirteenth century in England. It contains the Vulgate text of the Old and New Testaments, arranged in order and divided into chapters. Such Bibles, designed for individual rather than institutional use, began to be created on a large scale during the thirteenth century, especially in Paris. This manuscript is illuminated with a large number of small historiated initials, and also includes a somewhat later image of the Three Living and the Three Dead, a popular scene based on a French poem of the same century.
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Document identity
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22453
label
Pocket-Sized Bible
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Source metadata
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22453
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title
Pocket-Sized Bible
description
This pocket-size Bible was created around the middle of the thirteenth century in England. It contains the Vulgate text of the Old and New Testaments, arranged in order and divided into chapters. Such Bibles, designed for individual rather than institutional use, began to be created on a large scale during the thirteenth century, especially in Paris. This manuscript is illuminated with a large number of small historiated initials, and also includes a somewhat later image of the Three Living and the Three Dead, a popular scene based on a French poem of the same century.
provenance
Mr. Hulinx Borum, England [1]. Léon Gruel, Paris. Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] folio 1r
date
ca. 1260; miniature additions ca. 1290-1300 (Gothic)
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
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2
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2
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import
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cm
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14.5
height
9.5
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 5 11/16 × W: 3 3/4 in. (14.5 × 9.5 cm)
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ink and pigments on very thin high quality parchment bound between red morocco covered with eighteenth-century gilt
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Page inventory
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1
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