Biblia Sacra, cum prologo H. Heironymi

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Title: Biblia Sacra, cum prologo H. Heironymi
Published / Created: 13th century
Publication Place: France (Paris?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome, and interpretations of the Hebrew names
Description: In Latin.
Script: probably copied by one hand in extremely small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Perlschrift). The alphabetical list of words is by a contemporary hand. Numerous historiated initials of various sizes with long vertical extensions.
Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome; interpretations of the Hebrew names: Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, with additions in the margins and at the end; an alphabetical list of words with explanations and/or ethymologies; a table of Epistles, Gospels and other readings for the ecclesiastical year: Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of the Saints; and a list, in two columns, of the kings of Juda and Israel.
Binding: 19th century: calf over cardboard; both covers and spine, in six compartments, gold-tooled. Purple silk doublures.
Provenance: Yale University Library bookplate with the typewritten inscription "Gift of Jean Van Sinderen Vashaw and purchased on The Edwin J. Beinecke Fund".
Extent: ff. 643: 145 x 95 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic): Versions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Bible. Latin > Versions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Biblia Sacra, cum Prologo H. Heironymi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.