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Daniel and Hosea [Fragment] Public Deposited

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  • Language: Latin. Incipit: [la-]//cum et introspexit et ecce Daniel sedes in medio leonum exclamavit voces magna rex dice[n]s. Explicit: et visitabo super eam dies baalica quibus accendebat incensum et orna//[-batur]. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • Mid-15th century
Place of Origin
  • Bohemia, Germany
Related Work
Description
  • A leaf from a fifteenth-century German Bible, bearing the text of Daniel 14:39 to Hosea 2:13. The book from which this leaf was taken was broken by Otto Ege.
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • mma_018_001
Keywords
  • Historiated initial
  • Illumination
  • Christian
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Bible
  • Germany
  • Fragment
  • Scripture
Title
  • Daniel and Hosea [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Page dimensions (in mm): 442 x 310. Written area (in mm): 303 x 193, column width 87mm. Line height (in mm): 6.5. Script: Gothic. Script type: Textualis. Layout: Two columns, ruled in text-ink for 46 lines. Number of columns: 2. Number of lines: 46. Decoration: Ten-line illuminated, historiated initial on verso with figure of the prophet Hosea, using a palette of light red, blue, gray, green, yellow, black, and white. On the recto, there is an eleven-line illuminated, decorated initial in gray, green, gold, dark red, black and white and a four-line decorated initial in blue, black, and white. Two-line pen-flourished initial. Running heads in red and blue, and rubrication.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • 1937.19 (Accession number)
  • HL 150 (Gwara Handlist Number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • mma_018_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Muskegon Museum of Art. Muskegon, MI.
Provenance
  • This leaf comes from a volume owned by William B. Gourley (1857-1935) in the early twentieth century. The Gourley Collection was put up for sale on November 4, 1936 by the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries. The Lectern Bible was lot 73 and was purchased by Otto Ege, who later dismembered the volume. This leaf was purchased by the Muskegon Museum of Art from Otto F. Ege, Cleveland, OH and accessioned in May 1937.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Gwara, Scott. Otto Ege’s Manuscripts. Cayce, SC: De Brailes Publishing, 2013. [Pp. 167-8 and 266-7]
  • Ricci, Seymour de. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 3 vols. New York: HWWilson, 1935. [Vol. II, p. 1946]

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