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1. Bible
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1115]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 414
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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., and 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
2. Bible
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1141
- Image Count:
- 605
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible