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Miniatures: (1) St John and St Jacob the Apostles, fol. 24v; (2) St Philip and St Bartholomew the Apostles, fol. 40r; (3) St Thomas and St Matthew the Apostles, fol. 40v; (4) St Jacob, brother of the Lord, and St Paul, fol.
Original catalogue wording
Miniatures: (1) St John and St Jacob the Apostles, fol. 24v; (2) St Philip and St Bartholomew the Apostles, fol. 40r; (3) St Thomas and St Matthew the Apostles, fol. 40v; (4) St Jacob, brother of the Lord, and St Paul, fol. 68v; (5) St Mark the Evangelist, fol. 78v; (6) Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, fol. 82v; (7) King Solomon, fol. 100v. Headpieces: fols 2r, 12r, 17v, 25r, 34r, 55r, 59r, 69r, 79r, 83r, 94r, 101r.
Miniature, headpiece and illuminated-table inventories transcribed from the peer-reviewed handlist; only the field labels in front of them are added here.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 01Miniatures: (1) St John and St Jacob the Apostles, fol. 24v; (2) St Philip and St Bartholomew the Apostles, fol. 40r; (3) St Thomas and St Matthew the Apostles, fol. 40v; (4) St Jacob, brother of the Lord, and St Paul, fol. 68v; (5) St Mark the Evangelist, fol. 78v; (6) Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, fol. 82v; (7) King Solomon, fol. 100v.
Handlist field transcribed without geographic or stylistic inference.
- 02Headpieces: fols 2r, 12r, 17v, 25r, 34r, 55r, 59r, 69r, 79r, 83r, 94r, 101r.
Handlist field transcribed without geographic or stylistic inference.
- Source date
- 1425–1475 (visual evidence, palaeography).
- Date evidence
- Dating and evidence qualifiers transcribed from the peer-reviewed handlist.
- Holding institution
- London, British Library
- Shelfmark
- Or. 1542
- Catalogue source
- Karlsson, Gnisci & Dege-Müller handlist (Aethiopica 26)
- Source record
- Jonas Karlsson, Jacopo Gnisci, and Sophia Dege-Müller, Aethiopica 26 (2023), 159–225, handlist XXXVII