Bible
Found In:
9998901
Description
- Title
- Bible
- Published / Created
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (thin) containing 1) List of Epistle and Gospel readings (incipit and explicit) for the liturgical year. 2) Survey of the subdivisions of the Bible. 3) Bible text. 4) Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum. Two folios are missing between ff. 184 and 185, two folios between ff. 282 and 283, one folio between ff. 295 and 296, all with loss of text
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in very small Northern Gothica Textualis.
Red headings and red heigthening of the majuscules. Alternately red and blue pain initials (1 line) in art. 4. Alternately red and blue flourished initials (2 lines) with long marginal extensions. Beautiful larger flourished initials in the same colours with very developed penwork, in which both colours are sometimes combined, at the beginning of the various books and sections. On f. 1r large littera duplex and on f. 8r (beginning of Genesis) large initial I with very fine penwork, both the full height of the text area and in the same colours. Running titles in red and blue.
Many leaves and the lower outer corners of all leaves damaged by moist.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over thin wooden boards, decorated with rolls. Rebacked. Remnants of two clasps fixed to the rear cover. On the spine two labels, the upper one with the gold-tooled title in Gothic, nineteenth century: "Biblia sacra cum interpretationibus Hebraicorum nomine [sic] in fine"; the lower one with gold-tooled inscription in Roman type "MS.P." On the first fly-leaf (f. Iv) a list of Biblical Kings. - Provenance
- Collection of Col. Richard Gimbel. Gift of Mrs. Richard Gimbel, 1971.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 693 + ii : 180 x 135 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 589
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Versions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Bible > Commentaries
Bible. Latin > Versions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Bible. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9601012
- Object ID (OID)
- 9998901
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