Acts of the Apostles and Revelation

Description

Title: Acts of the Apostles and Revelation
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1550]
Publication Place: Flanders (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of the Acts of the Apostles and Revelation
Description: In Greek.
Mutilated watermarks consisting of column (?) flanked by fleur-de-lis.
Script: Written by a single person in a small neat minuscule script.
Initial on f. 1r painted in blue and outlined in red. Illuminated initial on f. 65r in gold, on blue square serving as background; partial border at bottom of page: pink flowers in gold rectangle outlined in black. Running titles throughout.
Binding: Probably ca. 1530. Bruges (?). Sewn on four single, tawed thongs laced twice in and out of pasteboards. The tawed cores of the beaded endbands are also laced twice. Half bands divide the end sections of the spine. The book-block is remarkably clean and the leaves flat. Covered in brown calf with panel stamps of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael in arches with a line of dancing figures and a piper in between. Heavily repaired.
Provenance: Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 4527). Purchased from Laurence Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
Extent: ff. 96 : 143 x 95 (103 x 69) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Flanders (Belgium) 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bible. Greek
Bible. N.T. Acts
Bible. N.T. Revelation
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Flanders (Belgium) > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Acts of the Apostles and Revelation. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.