Beinecke copy : the text v. is marked as v. 1, the plates as v. 2., Beinecke copy imperfect: fourth leaf (blank) and last leaf (blank) wanting., T.p. engraved., The statement of responsibility appears after the edition statement., Plates in accompanying v. engraved by Antonie, Jeronimus and Jan Wierix, Adriaen and Jan Collaert and Carel van Mallery, mostly after designs by Bernardino Passeri and Maerten de Vos., Edited by Jacobus Ximenes., The register lists the prelim. gathering as having six leaves., Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-2A⁶, ²2A-2G⁶ ²2H⁴., and Accompanied by: Euangelicae historiae imagines : exordine Euangeliorum, quae toto anno in Missae sacrificio recitantur ... / auctore Hieronymo Natali ... Antuerpiae ... M.D.XCIII ([10] p., 153 leaves of plates : 153 ill. ; 33 cm. (fol.)). The plates have a second series of numbers corresponding to their place in the text.
Manuscript on parchment in two volumes. Vol. 1: Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Begins in the middle of Matthew 5.17. Volume 2: Gospels of Luke and John. Both volumes exhibit the same physical format and were clearly bound together at an earlier date
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written by a single copyist in minuscule script, with headings and tables of chapters in uncials; writing runs through guide-lines rather than sitting on them., Full page portraits of Mark, Luke, and John; all are depicted on gold. Mark holds a codex in his left hand and touches his chin with the right. Luke (f. 3v, Vol. 2) writes in an open codex he is holding in his lap, while John (f. 87v, Vol. 2) holds a scroll bearing the opening phrases of his gospel. Illuminated headpieces and ornamental initials in gold with stylized foliage, before each book (except Mark); red initials at beginning of first, tenth, and twentieth lines of text., and Bindings: Volume 1, ca. 1904. Vellum case, gold-tooled. Volume 2, 1961. Orange goatskin gold-tooled, bound by Sidney Cockerell.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment in two volumes. Vol. 1: Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Begins in the middle of Matthew 5.17. Volume 2: Gospels of Luke and John. Both volumes exhibit the same physical format and were clearly bound together at an earlier date
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written by a single copyist in minuscule script, with headings and tables of chapters in uncials; writing runs through guide-lines rather than sitting on them., Full page portraits of Mark, Luke, and John; all are depicted on gold. Mark holds a codex in his left hand and touches his chin with the right. Luke (f. 3v, Vol. 2) writes in an open codex he is holding in his lap, while John (f. 87v, Vol. 2) holds a scroll bearing the opening phrases of his gospel. Illuminated headpieces and ornamental initials in gold with stylized foliage, before each book (except Mark); red initials at beginning of first, tenth, and twentieth lines of text., and Bindings: Volume 1, ca. 1904. Vellum case, gold-tooled. Volume 2, 1961. Orange goatskin gold-tooled, bound by Sidney Cockerell.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval