About the Artwork
Bible
between 1225 and 1250
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English
English
Ink, tempera and gold leaf on parchment
Overall (closed book): 7 3/8 × 5 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (18.7 × 14 × 6.4 cm) Sheet: 7 × 5 1/8 inches (17.8 × 13 cm)
Manuscripts
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 1957
1983.14
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Mrs. William E. Scripps
1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Cahn, W. and Marrow, J. "Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection." Yale University Library Gazette (April 1978): no. 19 (entry by Peter Barnet).
Barnet, Peter. "A Pair of Thirteenth-Century Bibles: The Ruskin Bible at Yale and the Scripps Bible in the Detroit Institute of Arts" Yale University Library Gazette 55 (1980): pp. 1-13.
Bulletin of the DIA 38, no. 2 (1958-1959): pp. 29-31.
Morgan, Nigel. Early Gothic Manuscripts, vol. 1, Oxford, 1983, p. 36 (footnote 40), p. 110.
Shailor, B.A. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, vol. II: MSS 251-500. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 48. Binghamton,1987, MS 387, p. 248.
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English, Bible, between 1225 and 1250, ink, tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 1957, 1983.14.
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