Bible

Description

Title: Bible
Published / Created: [between 1100 and 1115]
Publication Place: France,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible.
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge.
Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand.
Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red.
Extent: ff. i + 197 + i : parchment ; 273 x 187 (202 x 121) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Bible.--Latin--Versions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
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Citation: Bible. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 414.

Orbis Record: 9746777
Object ID (OID): 10269811
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms414.htm