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(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Bible
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Bible

author (Rouen, 1653 - 1723, The Hague)
publisher (active Amsterdam, about 1700)
illustrator (Amsterdam, 1645 - 1708, Haarlem)
Date1704
Place MadeAmsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions42.9 x 10.5 cm (16 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number3.1.22
eMuseum ID722256
EmbARK ObjectID17932
TMS Source ID6113
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 vol.: ill. (maps) ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesCharles F. Libbie & Co. Catalogue of a valuable collection... (29-30 April 1886, Boston), lot 1613.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 10.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), pp. 61-62.
MarksNotesInscribed: Annotated with the genealogy of the Janssen family of Angoulême, France.
ProvenanceNotesCollection of André Janseen (d. 1743) and his wife Elizabeth Du Bauguesmarte.
By desccent to members of the Janseen family.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the auctioneers Charles F. Libbie & Co. Boston, for $8.50 on 30 April 1886, lot 1613.