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
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased.
Description:
Modern pagination. and Only selected leaves scanned.
Subject (Name):
Bible. N.T. Matthew XX, 14-22, Bible. N.T. Matthew XXV, 11-28, Bible. N.T. Matthew--Commentaries--Early works to 1800, Bible. N.T. Matthew--Manuscripts, Latin, and Glossa ordinaria
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible.--N.T.--Matthew, Glossa ordinaria, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Book of Numbers (begins imperfectly at 5.14) with glossa ordinaria.
Description:
On parchment. and Written by a single scribe in two sizes of Carolingian minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Bible. O.T. Numbers and Glossa ordinaria
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible.--O.T.--Numbers, Glossa ordinaria, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library