Bible

Description

Title: Bible
Published / Created: [between 1225 and 1250].
Publication Place: Paris
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with prologues to almost every book; also includes interpretations of Hebrew names
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by several similar-looking hands writing in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria.
Decoration: each Prologue (except Jeremiah, f. 240rb) opens with a painted initial, decorated with interlace and hybrid animals, fishes, etc. Numerous large and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work. Execution of decoration ascribed to the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier." See catalog description for further detail.
Binding: Eighteenth century : rose-coloured parchment over wooden boards; both covers gold-tooled; brass bosses and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on front cover; cartouche containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto "Cum tempore fructus," on rear cover.
Provenance: Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, Bookseller, on the Beinecke Fund, 19 Feb. 1979.
Extent: ff. i + 439 + i : 376 x 260 (235 x 140) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bible > Commentaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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