Latin Bible (Jerome, Prologue to Job - Job 5: 9). Paris, c. 1220-30. 256 x 173 mm. Parchment. Single leaf. Double column; each column 167 x 46 mm.; 57 lines to a column; ruled and bounded in plummet; prick marks in inner margin. Historiated blue initial U (10-line), on verso, at beginning of Book of Job, depicting naked, diseased Job on dung heap, with his wife, three sons, and the devil, within a gilt frame. Illuminated initial S (8-line), also on verso, containing zoomorphic shapes, within a gilt frame. Provenance: Bought by John Feldman from Quaritch, March 1988 for $3,500; his MS 6. Purchased by UCB, April 1991 from him for $5,000. From the same manuscript as MS 318. Other leaves from this MS include: (i) two leaves, Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 48 (with plate) from the collection of Neil Phillips (MS 791); (ii) one leaf, Quaritch, Catalogue 1270 (2000), no. 18.
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Latin Bible (Jerome, Prologue to Job - Job 5: 9). Paris, c. 1220-30. 256 x 173 mm. Parchment. Single leaf. Double column; each column 167 x 46 mm.; 57 lines to a column; ruled and bounded in plummet; prick marks in inner margin. Historiated blue initial U (10-line), on verso, at beginning of Book of Job, depicting naked, diseased Job on dung heap, with his wife, three sons, and the devil, within a gilt frame. Illuminated initial S (8-line), also on verso, containing zoomorphic shapes, within a gilt frame. Provenance: Bought by John Feldman from Quaritch, March 1988 for $3,500; his MS 6. Purchased by UCB, April 1991 from him for $5,000. From the same manuscript as MS 318. Other leaves from this MS include: (i) two leaves, Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 48 (with plate) from the collection of Neil Phillips (MS 791); (ii) one leaf, Quaritch, Catalogue 1270 (2000), no. 18.
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