Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Ilustrated Manuscripts(London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p.Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p.
For further discussion see 'Maestri della Bibbia Istoriata padovana' in Dizionario Biografico (2004). Also attributed to this workshop are the 3-volume Antiphonary of Santa Guistina a Monselice (Padua, Biblioteca Capitolare, MSS E18, E19 and E20) and two Psalters in Modena, Biblioteca Estense MSS Lat. The style is similar to the work of Jacopo da Verona, who painted the frescoes in the Oratory of San Michele in Padua in c.
The miniatures are attributed in the Dizionario Biografico dei Miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI (2004) to the eponymous 'Maestri della Bibbia istoriata Padovana,' a workshop associated with Francesco Novello and the Carrara court in Padua at the end of the 14th century. 61r-80v: Illustrations of the Book of Joshua. 58r-60r: Illustrations of the Book of Deuteronomy ff. 31v-56r: Illustrations of the Book of Numbers ff. 31r: Frontispiece to the Book of Numbers: the Tabernacle and Ark with God and angels ff. 21v-24r: Illustrations of the Book of Leviticus f. 21r: Frontispiece to the Book of Leviticus: the Tabernacle and Ark with God and angels ff. 1-19r: Illustrations of the Book of Exodus including full-page images of the founding of the Ark (f.16v), the Menora or Candeliero (f. The layout and style is unique in an Italian manuscript, but is similar to that of the 'Egerton Genesis Picture Book', Egerton MS 1894 (Pacht, 'Giottesque Episode' (1943), p. 21r, 31r) the remaining miniatures are arranged three to four to a page. 16v, 17r, 17v) and two at the beginning of the Books of Leviticus and Numbers (ff. There are five full-page miniatures, three illustrating Exodus (ff. Decoration: 517 miniatures in ink with colour washes in red, green, blue and black, framed in red and black. Part of the original manuscript, containing Genesis and Ruth, is now Rovigo, Biblioteca dell'Accademia dei Concordi, MS 212. 20v, 30v, three unfoliated leaves following f. All pages are fully illuminated, with the exception of 12 text pages (ff. Contents: A cycle of miniatures illustrating the Old Testament, from Exodus I:11 to the end of the Book of Joshua, with short captions in Italian.
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