Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
25/138 page 105
![1088 1089 1090 LO91 1092 1093 painted in red or blue with elaborate pen flourishes, modern. vellum, from the collection of Henry Yates Thompson, with full collation of the volume in the autograph of M. R. James, unserted 8vo. XIII CENT. Bible, Latin. Biblia Sacra Vulgata, MS. on vELLUM, FRENCH, XIVtH Century, 590 leaves (5iin. by 32in.), written in small gothic characters, in two columns of 50 lines, decorated with several large ornamental initials painted in colours, numerous red or blue painted capitals, with elaborate pen flourishes, modern oak boards covered brown morocco, blind stamped antique style with clasps, in a lined box sm. 8vo. XIV CENT. Bible, Latin. Brsir1a Sacra Vurteata, MS. oN VELLUM, FRENCH,,. XIVtH Century, 544 leaves (5fin. by 4in.), written in small gothic characters, on uterine vellum Il., in two columns of 45 lines, decorated with some painted initials, a few finely his- toriated, with marginal elongations of bar pattern forming borders, and numerous pen letters in red and blue with elaborate. flourishes, modern brown morocco blind stamped antique style, g. tooled e. 1n a morocco pull-off case 8vo. XIV CENT. Bible, Latin. Biblia Sacra Latina, MS. oN VELLUM, FRENCH, XIVtH Century, 270 leaves (73in. by 53in.), written on thin vellum in small gothic characters in two columns of 53 lines, decorated with several finely painted large initial letters, begins and ends imperfectly and the Prologue of S. Jerome is supplied ina neat X Vth Century hand, modern green morocco extra 8vo. XIV CENT. BIBLE. Biswiia Latina, gothic letter, double columns of 58 and 50 lines, some initials coloured (wants 4 leaves at the end of Part II), 2 vols in 1, russia with a crest on the sides (joints cracked), no printer, place or date folio. Part I, Genesis—Psalms | Basel, Berthold Ruppel, not after 1468]; Part II, Proverbs—Apoc. [ Basel, Bernard Richel, not after 1476]. Brsie, Latin. Brpiia SAcRA, gothic letter, double columns of 61 lines, a large woodcut initial of St. Jerome and numerous large woodcut capitals (some coloured), brown morocco blind tooled by Pratt [Hain *3079 ; Proctor 2522] folio. Ulm. Johann Zainer, 1480: Bible, Latin. Biblia Sacra, gothic letter, double columns of 51-53 lines, a large initial in red and blue with ornamental pen-work, other initials in red (first leaf mounted, some stains and a few letters damaged by worm-holes), half calf [Hain *3076 ; Proctor *1995] folio. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1480-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31653455_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
No text description is available for this image
No text description is available for this image
No text description is available for this image