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Bible, with prologues and interpretations of Hebrew names
Title
Bible, with prologues and interpretations of Hebrew names.
Created
Paris?, France, 1251-1275.
Physical Description
1 volume (ii + 743 + i leaves) : parchment ; 170 mm x 110 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 10 historiated initials and inhabited/illuminated initials to the other biblical books and their prologues, and the divisions of the Psalms; chapters with initials alternately blue or red, flourished in opposite color; verse initials alternately blue or red.
Binding: 19th-century red velvet, reusing mid-18th-century white metals clasps engraved "JL" and "1755." Edges gauffered and gilt.
From about f. 715 onwards medieval damage to the left gutter corner; repaired and any affected text rewritten in the 14th century.
Bookseller description available.
Unidentified bookseller description tipped in on front endleaf.
In Latin.
Provenance
Bernard Quaritch, catalogue no. 261 (1908), item no. 453 and catalogue no. 29 (1910), no. 36. Formerly owned by Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth. Purchased by James Stevens Cox at Harmsworth sale, Sotheby's 1945 October 15, lot 1934. Purchased from Maggs Bros. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2021.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with interpretation of Hebrew names (begins f. 689v). Includes late 13th-century addition of list of the six ferial canticles, as well as 14th-century lists of Jesus's miracles and proverbs, and the books of a Paris Bible.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2022
References
Bible, With Prologues and Interpretations of Hebrew Names. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Bible, With Prologues and Interpretations of Hebrew Names. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Illuminated manuscripts.
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