Gospels of Matilda, countess of Tuscany, 1055 1115 : nineteen plates in gold and colour and twelve in monochrome, from the manuscript in the library of John Pierpont Morgan: PB 1917.1

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Gospels of Matilda, countess of Tuscany, 1055 1115 : nineteen plates in gold and colour and twelve in monochrome, from the manuscript in the library of John Pierpont Morgan

Maker(s)

Contributor: Warner, George, Sir
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Hall, Frederick (printer)
Printer: Oxford University Press

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Book

Description

With introduction by Sir George Warner.

The manuscript ... from the character of the handwriting and of the illustrations ... may be saftely assigned to the latter part of the 11th century."--p.14,15.
"Appendix: Text of the Liber vitae of the monastery of San Benedetto di Polirone, begun about 1100 and continued in various hands to about 1140; inserted at the end .. of the Gospels of the Countess Matila p. [39]-43.
Bibliographical foot-notes.

43 p, XXXI plates : ill. facsims ; 39 cm.

Place(s) associated

Oxford

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1917-12) by Thompson, Henry Yates

Dating

Production date: AD 1917

Note

Bound in red leather, gold stamped. Top edge of pages gilt. Marble end-pages.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

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Techniques used in production

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 1917.1
Primary reference Number: 98914
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 21 August 2012

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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