Bible

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Description

Title
Bible
Published / Created
approximately 1240-approximately 1250.
Publication Place
England
Abstract

Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands

Description
In Latin.
Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands.
Layout: double columns of 55 lines.
Script: gothica textualis.
Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue.
Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Previously owned by Sir Philip Hunloke. Bookplate of James Stevens Cox. Purchased from Maggs Brothers, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2019.
Extent
iii + 348 + iii : 155 mm x 110 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Osborn a73

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Geographic)
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects
Bible
Bible > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Stevens-Cox, James > Bookplate

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Citation
Bible. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
15585488
Object ID (OID)
32343089

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