Bible (fragments).

Description

Title: Bible (fragments).
Published / Created: [between 1225 and 1250]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees
Description: In Latin.
Script: gothica textualis.
Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves.
Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked.
Provenance: In volume: ownership inscription of Thomas Martin (1697-1771); ex libris Thomas Barber; ownership inscription of Emily Bagot. Purchased from Lux et Umbra on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014.
Extent: 1 v. + 62 l. : 155 x 104 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
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
England > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bagot, Emily > Autograph
Barber, Thomas, -1785 > Bookplate
Martin, Thomas, 1697-1771

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