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This manuscript is a thirteenth-century Bible copied in France, possibly Paris, with the prologues of Jerome and the Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretation of Hebrew names). It is written in two columns of textualis script with running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue letters. Its hierarchy of decoration includes historiated initials at a small number of book and psalm divisions; decorated initials at all other book and some other psalm divisions; and flourished initials at chapter divisions and the remaining psalm divisions. The historiated initials are similar to the work of the Johannes Grusch atelier in Paris. Between the Bible and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, the canticles, creeds, a litany, and a few prayers are written in another hand; an abbreviated Office of the Virgin, in yet another hand, is bound in at the end of the volume after the Interpretation of Hebrew Names. Some textual corrections and notes are written in the margins. Owner signatures and notes are written at the front and back of the volume.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+447; 175 x 120 mm bound to 185 x 125 mm; Foliation: 1-412, i, 413-446; contemporary foliation in ink in roman numerals, lower right recto, often trimmed away; later foliation in ink at lower right corner of recto text; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; references in this record are to modern foliation; Collation: 1-20 (20), 21 (10), 22 (20), 23 (15, +1), 24 (2); last four quires uncertain
Written in two columns of fifty-one lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; edges trimmed; written area: 120 x 83 mm
Gothic--textualis
Nine historiated initials similar to the work of the Johannes Grusch atelier in Paris, at the beginning of Genesis (fol. 3v), Psalms (fol. 184v), Proverbs (fol. 204v), Isaiah (fol. 234r), Hosea (fol. 294v), Maccabees I (fol. 310v), Matthew (fol. 328r), Romans (fol. 365r), and Acts (fol. 387v); added illustrations by Spanish hands of episodes from the Infancy Cycle in the bas-de-page on fols. 327v-328r (early 14th century) and 345v-346r (late13th century); illuminated initials in blue, red, pink and pale green; flourished initials throughout; running titles and roman numerals for chapters in alternating red and blue letters
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.
Several obits on rear pastedown: Obit i[n]noce[n]ci II xii die septe[m]br[i] a[n]no d[omi]ni mccclxii; obiit petris Cardinalis hispanie . . . mcclxxiiii; obit nepos [?] domini
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.
France
Circa 1250
Fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Spanish brown calf with blind tooling; spine damaged at head and tail; remnants of two clasps
Latin
Johannes Patou, Cambrai? (Johannes Patou written five times in various hands on the flyleaf verso; fol. 204v, at the end of the Psalms: Joannes patou me ex urbe opule[n]tissima (trecis?) Cameracum (Cambrai) transtulit; signature, fol. 445v); Diego Alphonso, Spain (fourteenth or fifteenth century, signature, fol. 445v) ; purchased by the Free Library from Harry Levinson (Beverly Hills, California), 1969; several other early inscriptions on f. 445v and rear pastedown
France
Circa 1250
Latin
Johannes Patou, Cambrai? (Johannes Patou written five times in various hands on the flyleaf verso; fol. 204v, at the end of the Psalms: Joannes patou me ex urbe opule[n]tissima
This manuscript is a thirteenth-century Bible copied in France, possibly Paris, with the prologues of Jerome and the Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretation of Hebrew names). It is written in two columns of textualis script with running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue letters. Its hierarchy of decoration includes historiated initials at a small number of book and psalm divisions; decorated initials at all other book and some other psalm divisions; and flourished initials at chapter divisions and the remaining psalm divisions. The historiated initials are similar to the work of the Johannes Grusch atelier in Paris. Between the Bible and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, the canticles, creeds, a litany, and a few prayers are written in another hand; an abbreviated Office of the Virgin, in yet another hand, is bound in at the end of the volume after the Interpretation of Hebrew Names. Some textual corrections and notes are written in the margins. Owner signatures and notes are written at the front and back of the volume.
Several obits on rear pastedown: Obit i[n]noce[n]ci II xii die septe[m]br[i] a[n]no d[omi]ni mccclxii; obiit petris Cardinalis hispanie . . . mcclxxiiii; obit nepos [?] domini
Gothic--textualis
Nine historiated initials similar to the work of the Johannes Grusch atelier in Paris, at the beginning of Genesis (fol. 3v), Psalms (fol. 184v), Proverbs (fol. 204v), Isaiah (fol. 234r), Hosea (fol. 294v), Maccabees I (fol. 310v), Matthew (fol. 328r), Romans (fol. 365r), and Acts (fol. 387v); added illustrations by Spanish hands of episodes from the Infancy Cycle in the bas-de-page on fols. 327v-328r (early 14th century) and 345v-346r (late13th century); illuminated initials in blue, red, pink and pale green; flourished initials throughout; running titles and roman numerals for chapters in alternating red and blue letters
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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