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This manuscript is an early thirteenth-century Bible with additional prayers and appendices. It features over fifty highly elaborate zoomorphic and inhabited initials with decorated initials throughout.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+452+i; 225 x 156 mm bound to 235 x 165 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil at intervals of about 5 upper corner recto; Collation: Structure uncertain
Ruled in lead; two columns of fifty-five lines, every line ruled; some prickings extant; written area: 155 x 97 mm
Gothic -- textualis
One miniature (fol. 193r); fifty historiated initials at the beginning of chapters; seven initials excised at fols. 88, 173, 176, 261, 293, 333, 396; decorated and inhabited initials throughout at the beginning of chapters; two-line and one-line capitals in red and blue with pen flourishing throughout; chapter numbers in red and blue with pen flourishing
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
The following notes were made by Tom Izbicki for Haverford College: Conclusion of prologues and beginning of Genesis lacking because of lost leaf; conclusion of Psalms (from Ps. 134 in med.) lacking after fol. 192vb; text resumes with Proverbs at fol. 194r after Sarum Missal excerpts; New Testament bound out of order, as roughly indicated by penciled enumeration: fol. 318va-329vb Matthew; fol. 384ra-387vb Matthew; fol. 330ra-360vb Matthew-1 Cor.; fol. 361ra-383vb 1 Cor.-Hebrews, Acts; 390ra-401ra Acts-Revelation; note that Acts was copied after Paul's epistles and before the canonical epistles
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Northern France
Circa 1200
Latin
Ownership inscriptions include 'Richard Wyll, 1482' (fol. 218r); 'Robert Mirfield Booke 1523' (fol. 159v) and 'Robert Mirfield Booke' (fol. 258v); 'John Pemberton' (fol. 401r); Note on the first flyleaf of purchase by John Pemberton from John Kendall, Colchester June 13, 1787; given by Pemberton to the Library of Friends of Philadelphia; "loaned indefinitely" to Haverford College in 2002
Northern France
Circa 1200
Latin
Ownership inscriptions include 'Richard Wyll, 1482'
This manuscript is an early thirteenth-century Bible with additional prayers and appendices. It features over fifty highly elaborate zoomorphic and inhabited initials with decorated initials throughout.
The following notes were made by Tom Izbicki for Haverford College: Conclusion of prologues and beginning of Genesis lacking because of lost leaf; conclusion of Psalms (from Ps. 134 in med.) lacking after fol. 192vb; text resumes with Proverbs at fol. 194r after Sarum Missal excerpts; New Testament bound out of order, as roughly indicated by penciled enumeration: fol. 318va-329vb Matthew; fol. 384ra-387vb Matthew; fol. 330ra-360vb Matthew-1 Cor.; fol. 361ra-383vb 1 Cor.-Hebrews, Acts; 390ra-401ra Acts-Revelation; note that Acts was copied after Paul's epistles and before the canonical epistles
Gothic -- textualis
One miniature (fol. 193r); fifty historiated initials at the beginning of chapters; seven initials excised at fols. 88, 173, 176, 261, 293, 333, 396; decorated and inhabited initials throughout at the beginning of chapters; two-line and one-line capitals in red and blue with pen flourishing throughout; chapter numbers in red and blue with pen flourishing
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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