Bible — 13th century, third quarter; English
MS. Lyell 10
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bible — 13th century, third quarter; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 10
Place of origin
English
Date
13th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Up to fol. 287 (Ezekiel) beginnings of Books and Prefaces have painted floriated initials (sometimes with borders) in blue, pink, orange-brown, and yellow, generally on pink grounds, sometimes incorporating monsters (fols. 1r, 107v), birds (fol. 84r, 95v, 183r), monsters’ heads (fols. 22v, 47v, 93v, 162v, 170v, 174r, 192v); there is another painted initial on fol. 440r; other initials are red and blue with fine pen flourishes in the same colours, or red flourished in blue or blue in red, often with elaborate bicoloured trails of penwork in the margins. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 455)
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948
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