II Maccabees 2-4 Bible leaf, circa 1240

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Title: II Maccabees 2-4 Bible leaf, circa 1240
Scribe: William de Brailes Workshop
Associated Name: William, de Brailes, active 13th century
Date Created: 1240
13th century
Notes: From a Bible produced in the workshop of William de Brailes, whose workshop was active in Oxford ca. 1238-1252. De Brailes was the illuminator of the Oxford Bible.
Contents: II Maccabees, Chapters 2 (partial), 3, and 4 (partial).
Language: Latin
Archival Collection: Medieval Manuscripts
Collection Identifier: MSC0542
Call Number: xfMMs.Bi3
Collection Guide: http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/514
Foliation: Foliation: None
Ruling: Ruling: Graphite
Hand: Gothic bookhand
very small, dark brown ink
Initials and Capitals: Initials and Capitals: Two flourished chapter heading initials. The recto has an "I" that trails up and down the entire margin between the two columns. The verso has an "S" that does the same, only just stopping short of the top third of the text.
Page Titles: Page Titles: Page headings in alternating blue and red letters, abbreviated and minimally flourished. Recto - II. Verso - MACH[ABEES].
Rubrication: Rubrication: Rubrication within the text on the first letters of each new sentence.
Marginal Notation: Marginal Notation Notes: There are marginal markings that may have been used to highlight certain passages for the reader. These consist of two dots with a pen stroke underneath, thick at the top and trailing off at the bottom. The same hand that wrote the column headings in light brown ink also wrote ".t. f." in the upper left margin of the recto and the lower right margin of the verso.
Provenance: Provenance: Purchased from Cohasco Inc. on August 20, 2003. Sale No. 51, Lot No. 9-32. For a sister leaf, see Blackburn Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, pl. 4. Verso, bottom margin, in pencil "#55-211."
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
Digitization Specifications: Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 3228C at 400 ppi, full color. Archival tiff available.
References: References: Claire, Donovan, De Brailes Hours: Shaping the Book of Hours in Thirteenth-Century Oxford (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991).
Date Digital: 2008-02-25
Rights Management: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Contact Information: Contact the Special Collections Department at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
File name: xfMMs.Bi3
Item Type (DCMI): Text
Item Type (LCTGM): Bibles
Initials
Item Type (Local): Bible
Item Type (IMT): jpeg