Illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages

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Sam Fleming Illuminated Medieval Manuscript and Early Printing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0640
Scope and Content Note This Collection of Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Leaves is 1.04 linear feet and is comprised of 91 vellum leaves from a Latin Manuscript Bible of the late 13th century and 80 pages from a Missal printed in the first part of the 16th century. The illuminated leaves from the Latin Bible have been damaged and repaired. Reproductions of six of these leaves from the Illuminated Latin Bible are framed and hang in the...
Dates: circa 1290-circa early 1500s
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections / Sam Fleming Illuminated Medieval Manuscript and Early Printing Collection

 

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