Bible (fragments).

Description

Title: Bible (fragments).
Contributor: Bagot, Emily--Autograph
Barber, Thomas,---1785--Bookplate
Martin, Thomas,--1697-1771
Published / Created: [between 1225 and 1250]
Publication Place: England,
Abstract: Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees.
Description: Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked.
Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves.
In volume: ownership inscription of Thomas Martin (1697-1771); ex libris Thomas Barber; ownership inscription of Emily Bagot. Purchased from Lux et Umbra on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014.
Script: gothica textualis.
Extent: 1 v. + 63 L. : parchment ; 155 x 104 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--England--13th century
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Bagot, Emily--Autograph
Barber, Thomas,---1785--Bookplate
Martin, Thomas,--1697-1771
Subject (Topic): Bible.--Latin--Versions
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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

Orbis Record: 12804244
Object ID (OID): 15789734
More Information: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.msxxx.htm