Books+ Search Results
Bible
Title
Bible.
Created
England or Northern France, mid-13th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (iii + 307 + ii leaves) : parchment; paper flyleaves ; 310 mm x 220 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Layout: 2 columns of 60 lines.
Script: gothic bookhand.
Decoration: decorated initials of 4-6 lines and in red and blue, with penwork in red, blue, and green; numerous 2-line initials in red and blue, with penwork in red, blue, and green; initials, running title, marginal chapter numbering in red and blue.
Binding: 18th-century gilt-tooled vellum. Spine title: Biblia Sacra manuscripta.
Secundo folio: no[mi]nat.
Two leaves wanting after fol. 275 and fol. 277; many leaves damaged and repaired with paper or parchment, often without loss of text.
Manuscript annotations in ink and pencil in several medieval and early modern hands; many trimmed during binding.
Front flyleaves on paper.
Bookseller description available.
In Latin.
Provenance
Autograph (fol. 283r): Knowles Charles Br[...]. Unidentified shelfmark: no. 156. Presentation inscription of John Grove to Southampton grammar school. Bookplate of Southampton grammar school, later King Edward VI School. Purchased at Bonhams' Fine Books and Manuscripts sale, London, 2021 December 1, lot 42, on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2021.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of the Vulgate, containing the Old and New Testaments, with Psalms and Prologues of Saint Jerome.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 26, 2022
References
Bible. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Bible. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 13th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 14th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 13th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 13th century.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
