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Detailed record for Sloane 346
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| Title |
Speculum humanae salvationis, imperfect |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
c. 1330-1340 |
| Language |
Latin, with added English interlinear translation |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
3 artists distinguished by Scott: see above. |
| Decoration |
Numerous drawings in ink, with captions and sometimes details in red or a red wash, identified by Scott as by three artists: 'A' of 100 miniatures, of c. 1330-1340 (ff. 1-33v, 35-38v, 40-51, 52, 54v, 55); 'B', of 8 miniatures in an Italianate style c. 1380-1400 (ff. 34r-v, 39r-v, 51v, 52v, 53v, 54); and 'C' of 1 miniature, of c. 1400-1410 (f. 53). Large initials in blue. Paraphs in blue. Highlighting of letters in red. Marginal drawings in ink. |
| Dimensions in mm |
270 x 170 (205 x 115) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 55 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae(Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 346.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 8.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, 267.
Kathleen L. Scott, 'Four Early Fifteenth-century English Manuscripts of the Speculum humanae salvationis and a Fourteenth-century Exemplar', in Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 10 (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 177-203 (pp. 178-201, pls. 6 fig. 1, 7 fig 1, as 'Slonae I').
Database of illustrations of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis, ed. by Berthold Kress, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database [https://iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/vpc/VPC_search/subcats.php?cat_1=14&cat_2=812&cat_3=2903&cat_4=5439&cat_5=13111&cat_6=9245&cat_7=2917] [accessed 3 July 2018]. |
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f. 3
Betrayal |
f. 4
Saul and David |
f. 5
Mocking of Christ |
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f. 7
Flagellation |
f. 9
Crown of Thorns |
f. 11
Road to Calvary |
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f. 13v
Tubal-Cain |
f. 15
Crucifixion |
f. 15v
Nebuchadnezzar's dream |
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f. 18v
Evilmerodach |
f. 19
Deposition |
f. 22
Joseph |
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f. 22v
Jonah |
f. 27
The Virgin |
f. 31
Resurrection |
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f. 36
Moses |
f. 38
Finding of the Coin |
f. 38v
Marriage |
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f. 39
Coronation |
f. 45
Christ displaying wounds |
f. 52v
Job's children |
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f. 53
Last Supper |
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