Bible

Description

Title: Bible
Published / Created: [between 1100 and 1300]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Latin Bible, annotated (art. 3), with various related and unrelated notes (artt. 1-2).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Probably copied by several similar hands, writing a small Late Carolingian script; and the headings and the poem on f. 2v (art. 3), both in red ink, are written in display script.
Decoration: red headings and heightening of majuscules; red and blue paragraph marks, initials, and litterae duplices; large historiated "I" with three roundels depicting scenes from creation on f. 3v; pen-and-ink drawing in the lwoer margin of f. 59v.
Binding: 20th century white parchment over cardboard; spine with four raised bands, gold fillets, and a gold-tooled title "BIBLIA"/ "CA. 1200" in the second and third compartments.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. iii + i + 293 + iii : 255 x 165 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 1141
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Versions
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bible. Latin > Versions
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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