The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350.
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It was part of the Hamilton Collection of medieval manuscripts, formed by Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, and acquired by the Berlin State Library in 1884,[1] and is currently held in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, with call number 78 E 3.
It has been identified that the Bible open on the table in Raphael's Portrait of Leo X is the Hamilton Bible.[2]
References
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edit- Helmut Böse, Die lateinischen Handschriften der Sammlung Hamilton zu Berlin (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1966), pp. 45-46
- A page of the Hamilton Bible (black and white).