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2 min readThe Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court docket in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina round 1350.
It was a part of the Hamilton Collection of medieval manuscripts, shaped by Alexander Hamilton, tenth Duke of Hamilton, and bought by the Berlin State Library in 1884,[1] and is presently held within the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, with name quantity 78 E 3.
It has been recognized that the Bible open on the desk in Raphael’s Portrait of Leo X is the Hamilton Bible.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Siegfried Baur, “State Library of Berlin”, translated by James H. Stam and Susan Reed, in International Dictionary of Library Histories, ed. David H. Stam, vol. 2 (Chicago and London, 2001), p. 714.
- ^ Bernice F. Davidson, Raphael’s Bible (1985), p. 12.
External hyperlinks[edit]
- Helmut Böse, Die lateinischen Handschriften der Sammlung Hamilton zu Berlin (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1966), pp. 45-46
- A web page of the Hamilton Bible (black and white).
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