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: In Latin.
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.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge.
Provenance: Acquired by A. Chester Beatty in 1920. Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1969 by Edwin J. Beinecke, for the Beinecke Library.
Extent: ff. i + 197 + i : 273 x 187 (202 x 121) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 414
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Versions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bible. Latin > Versions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Bible. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.