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Title

Novum testamentum domini nostri Jesu Christi

Other related names

• Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1560
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946096373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456270339
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4609637

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1235 and 1270

Place

England?

Summary

The complete New Testament with prologues, written in a tiny script, except for text missing at the end of John (after 19.23) and the beginning of Romans (before 2.10). Extensive brief marginal notes throughout, very English in style, mostly indicate cross-references but also include some corrections. Preceding the Bible text is a highly compressed lectionary, listing citations and minimal incipits in four columns, on which is written in a later hand a title and a list of the books of the New Testament (f. 1r). Following the Bible text is a 5-line verse serving as a mnemonic device for the 10 Eusebian canons (Quatuor est primus ... Decimo sua cuique repono; Walther, Initia 15297), marked with 10 letters in red. This serves as a preface to a 200-line metrical digest and concordance of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (incipit A Generat B magos vocat ...; Walther, Initia 37), marked repeatedly with the same 10 letters to indicate each phrase's status in the Eusebian canonical tables and numbers to indicate the chapters of parallel passages in other gospels (f. 60v-61v). The manuscript breaks off abruptly at Luke 20, with the end of Luke and all of the Gospel of John missing at the end of the summary.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

61 leaves : 196 x 132 (140 x 92) mm. bound to 198 x 148 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 61; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Later vellum, lined with a fragment of a leaf containing Luke 5.17-25, beginning with a 4-line initial in blue flourished with red, from an antiphonary that was written in two columns with rubrics in red and 1-line initials alternating in red and blue.

Layout

New Testament written in 2 columns of 63 lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; double horizontal bounding-lines (f. 1v-60v). Metrical digest written in 2 columns of 33-41 lines, written on every other line to leave room for letters and numbers above each line; frame-ruled in faint ink; triple vertical bounding-lines left of left column and quadruple vertical bounding-lines left of right column, creating narrow columns for chapter numbers, paragraph marks, and the first letter of each line (f. 60v-61v).

Decoration

Puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and the first epistle of Peter (f. 9v, 14r, 22r, 45r, 54r); numerous initials, most 1-line, but up to 8-line, in blue flourished with red or red flourished with turquoise; running book titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue characters; rubrics in red; Eusebian letters in metrical digest in red.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script.

Provenance

• Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside lower cover), 1966.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Bible
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• Bible
• 13th century
• Christian
• English
• English
• Biblical

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Lectionary, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Prologue to Matthew, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Matthew, f. 2r
• fol. 9r — Prologue to Mark, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Mark, f. 9v
• fol. 14r — Prologues and Gospel of Luke, f. 14r
• fol. 22r — Prologue and Gospel of John, f. 22r
• fol. 28r — Romans (End of John and beginning of Romans missing), f. 28r
• fol. 30v — Argument and Epistle to the Corinthians 1, f. 30v
• fol. 34r — Argument and Epistle to the Corinthians 2, f. 34r
• fol. 36r — Argument and Epistle to the Galatians, f. 36r
• fol. 37r — Argument and Epistle to the Ephesians, f. 37r
• fol. 38r — Prologue and Epistle to the Philippians, f. 38r
• fol. 39r — Prologue and Epistle to the Colossians, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Prologue and Epistle to the Thessalonians 1, f. 39v
• fol. 40r — Prologue and Epistle to the Thessalonians 2, f. 40r
• fol. 40v — Prologue and Epistle to Timothy 1, f. 40v
• fol. 41v — Prologue and Epistle to Timothy 2, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Prologue and Epistle to Titus, f. 42r
• fol. 42v — Prologue and Epistle to Philemon, f. 42v
• fol. 42v — Prologue and Epistle to the Hebrews, f. 42v
• fol. 45r — Prologue and Acts of the Apostles, f. 45r
• fol. 53r — James, f. 53r
• fol. 53r — Prologue to the Canonical Epistles, f. 53r
• fol. 54r — Peter 1, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Peter 2, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — John 1, f. 55r
• fol. 56r — John 2, f. 56r
• fol. 56r — Jude, f. 56r
• fol. 56v — Prologue and Book of Revelation, f. 56v
• fol. 60v — Metrical digest of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, f. 60v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — List of books of the New Testament (in a later hand), f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Penwork initial, Initial M, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Penwork initial, Initial L, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 3r
• fol. 9r — Penwork initial, Initial M, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 9v
• fol. 14r — Puzzle initial, Initial L, f. 14r
• fol. 14r — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 14r
• fol. 22r — Penwork initial, Initial H, f. 22r
• fol. 22r — Puzzle initial, Initial I, f. 22r
• fol. 30v — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 30v
• fol. 34r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 34r
• fol. 36r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 36r
• fol. 37r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 37r
• fol. 38r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 38r
• fol. 39r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 39v
• fol. 40r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 40r
• fol. 40v — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 40v
• fol. 41v — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 42r
• fol. 42v — Penwork initial, Initial P, Bird head, f. 42v
• fol. 42v — Penwork initial, Initial M, f. 42v
• fol. 45r — Puzzle initial, Initial I, f. 45r
• fol. 45r — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 45r
• fol. 53r — Penwork initial, Initial N, f. 53r
• fol. 53r — Puzzle initial, Initial I, f. 53r
• fol. 54r — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 54r
• fol. 56v — Penwork initial, Initial A, f. 56v
• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside back cover
• Inside back cover — Bookplate, Inside back cover