Shelfmark
P.Rox.1917.OS
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Gospels. N.T. Latin.
Title
Gospels of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, 1055-1115 : nineteen plates in gold and colour and twelve in monochrome, from the manuscript in the library of John Pierpont Morgan / with introduction by Sir George Warner.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Privately printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, MCM XVII [1917].
Physical description
43 p., [31] leaves of plates : facsims. ; 39 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
"Appendix: Text of the Liber vitae of the monastery of San Benedetto di Polirone, begun about 1100 and continued in various hands to about 1140; inserted at the end .. of the Gospels of the Countess Matila p. [39]-43.
Note
"The manuscript ... from the character of the handwriting and of the illustrations ... may be saftely assigned to the latter part of the 11th century."--p.14,15.
Note
Half-title verso: "Oxford. Plates and letterpress printed at the University Press by Frederick Hall".
Note
"Presented to the President and members of the Roxburghe Club in fulfilment of the intention of John Pierpont Morgan (died March 31, 1913) by his son, New York, 1917".
Note
20th century leather binding; gilt double fillet frame; five raised bands; gilt decoration on spine; title and date of publication stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; gilt top-edge.
Provenance
Circular Eton bookplate on front pastedown.
Provenance
M. R. James's copy.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted printed compliments slip from John Pierpont Morgan.
Subject
Matilde, 1046 - 1115 di Canossa, contessa,
Subject
Bible. N T. Gospels.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts Specimens, reproductions, etc.
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Warner, George F., 1845 - 1936 (George Frederic), Sir, editor.
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Oxford University Press printer.
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England Oxford.
Identifier
B44697