Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Bible

Other related names

• Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86104936.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 34
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 12

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This manuscript is a thirteenth-century Bible written in Paris, France.

Notes

• This manuscript was rebound in the early nineteenth century by the bookbinder Charles Lewis (d. 1836); the coat-of-arms that decorate the cover belong to the first Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), one of the book's previous owners
   
• Front cover and front flyleaves are detached
   
• Quire (probably only one) is missing after quire 1 (skips from Genesis Chapter 26 to Chapter 32), contemporary quire signatures do not skip, which implies the quire was never bound in; leaf missing between fol. 13 and fol. 14 (skips from Genesis Chapter 37 to Chapter 39); fol. 31 contains Genesis Chapters 29-31;
   
• Quires 17 and 18 (Psalms) lack headings and the ink in quire 18 is lighter than that used in the rest of the manuscript
   

Extent

Ii+338+ii; 240 x 165 mm bound to 254 x 200 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (11, +1), 2 (10, -3), 3 (11, +11), 4-15 (10), 16 (10, -9 -10), 17 (14), 18 (6), 19-33 (10), 34 (10, -10)

Signatures

Letters added during rebinding, bottom center recto: 21, 31, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72, 82, 92, 102, 112, 122, 132, 142, 152, 160, 174, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330; Roman numerals contemporary (?) bottom center verso: 11, 20, 30, 41, 51, 61, 71, 111; sheet signatures lower right recto throughout, although many have been cut

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords throughout, lower right verso: 11v, 20v, 111v, 121v, 131v (mostly cut), 141v, 151v, 279v, 289v, 329v

Binding

Nineteenth-century dark blue morocco by Charles Lewis (d. 1836); with a gilt coat of arms of the Duke of Sutherland; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA LATINA M.S.

Layout

Two columns of fifty lines, lead point ruling; written area: 171 x 116 mm

Decoration

Red and blue flourished initials throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Provenance

• George Granville Leveson-Gower, First Duke of Sutherland; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2027, no. 12.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 41-42, no. 34.

Keywords

• Bible
• Christian
• 13th century
• France
• Heraldry

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Vulgate Bible; incipit: Frater Ambrosius michi miniscula pre[fe]rens .; explicit: Gr[atur]a domini nostri ih[es]u xpi cum omnibus uobis. Amen.

Decorations

• Front cover — Gilt coat of arms of the Duke of Sutherland
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Print catalog entry
• fol. 2v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 72r — Marginalia
• fol. 74r — Marginalia
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Print catalog entry
• Back cover — Gilt coat of arms of the Duke of Sutherland