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Add MS 15705
- Record Id:
- 032-002093390
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002093390
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x00015a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165143603.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15705
- Title:
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Biblia pauperum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Part of a Biblia Pauperum (Paupers' Bible) representing Christ's Passion in alternating pages of text and images.
Decoration:
12 full-page framed series of pen-drawings in groups of 5 or 6, consisting of an image from the life of Christ above, with two images from the Old Testament beneath and in the lower register two images depicting the habits of animals, including snakes, birds, dogs, wild boars, fish, an owl, an elephant and a peacock. Four smaller framed drawings of heads of biblical figures in profile on each side form a partial frame.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002093390", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 15705: Biblia pauperum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002093390
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002093390
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165143603.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 205mm (text space 230 x 155mm).
Layout: The upper quarter of the page is written in one column (lines 1-9/10); the remainder of the page is written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 12 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 9 at the end).
Script: Semigothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled boards with leather spine and corners.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany, Western (?).
Provenance:
The paper's watermark (the letter 'P') is similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), II, nos 8601 (Troyes, 1467; Colmar, 1467; Siegen, 1469); 8603 (Mainz, 1469); and 8606 (Lubeck, 1470; Leiden, 1471; Leeuwenhorst, 1472; Kortrijk, 1472; Asterstal [sic], 1472-77; Colmar, 1473; Beauvais, 1473; Saint-Omer, 1473; Utrecht, 1473; Decize, 1474; Lille, 1475; Namur, 1476; Antwerp, 1477; Laon, 1476). The watermark suggests that the manuscript was produced between c. 1470 and c. 1480 in Western Germany, Northern France or the Netherlands.
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 (1997), 131-53): a description of the manuscript in German on a paste-down to f. [vi] recto. Bought from him by the British museum, 24 January 1846 (a note on f. [vi] recto).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1864), p. 12.
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), II, nos 8601, 8603, and 8606.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)