Bible

Unknown Artist

1477 (printing); 1478 (binding)

Bible by Unknown Artist

Medium

Binding: leather (stamped & tooled) with engraved brass fittings, ink printed on paper, 1st folio hand colored in tempera, metal leaf, and shell gold

Dimensions

Overall: 16 1/4 x 12 x 4 7/8 in. (41.3 x 30.5 x 12.4 cm)

Classification

Leatherwork

Culture

German

Department

Medieval Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Fletcher Fund, 1924

Accession Number

24.142.2

Tags

Coat of Arms

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