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Title

Bible from Northern France

Other related names

• Pemberton, John, 1727-1795, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr92042225)
• Library of Friends of Philadelphia, former owner
• Wyll, Richard, former owner
• Mirfield, Robert, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1250 J2.16.10
(Haverford, United States, Haverford College, Quaker & Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• https://tripod.haverford.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991016449339704921&context=L&vid=01TRI_INST:HC&search_scope=HC_Catalog&tab=LibraryCatalog&lang=en

Publisher

Quaker & Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern France

Summary

This manuscript is an early thirteenth-century Bible with additional prayers and appendices. It features over fifty highly elaborate zoomorphic and inhabited initials with decorated initials throughout.

Notes

• The following notes were made by Tom Izbicki for Haverford College: Conclusion of prologues and beginning of Genesis lacking because of lost leaf; conclusion of Psalms (from Ps. 134 in med.) lacking after fol. 192vb; text resumes with Proverbs at fol. 194r after Sarum Missal excerpts; New Testament bound out of order, as roughly indicated by penciled enumeration: fol. 318va-329vb Matthew; fol. 384ra-387vb Matthew; fol. 330ra-360vb Matthew-1 Cor.; fol. 361ra-383vb 1 Cor.-Hebrews, Acts; 390ra-401ra Acts-Revelation; note that Acts was copied after Paul's epistles and before the canonical epistles
   

Extent

I+452+i; 225 x 156 mm bound to 235 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil at intervals of about 5 upper corner recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Layout

Ruled in lead; two columns of fifty-five lines, every line ruled; some prickings extant; written area: 155 x 97 mm

Decoration

One miniature (fol. 193r); fifty historiated initials at the beginning of chapters; seven initials excised at fols. 88, 173, 176, 261, 293, 333, 396; decorated and inhabited initials throughout at the beginning of chapters; two-line and one-line capitals in red and blue with pen flourishing throughout; chapter numbers in red and blue with pen flourishing

Script

Gothic -- textualis

Provenance

• Ownership inscriptions include 'Richard Wyll, 1482' (fol. 218r); 'Robert Mirfield Booke 1523' (fol. 159v) and 'Robert Mirfield Booke' (fol. 258v); 'John Pemberton' (fol. 401r); Note on the first flyleaf of purchase by John Pemberton from John Kendall, Colchester June 13, 1787; given by Pemberton to the Library of Friends of Philadelphia; "loaned indefinitely" to Haverford College in 2002
   

Related resources

• Tanis, James R., "Collecting Illuminated Manuscripts in Philadelphia," in Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 6-7, fig. 4 (article pp. 5-13).

Keywords

• 13th century
• Bible
• France
• Historiated initial
• Illumination
• French

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Vulgate Bible with Prologues, Genesis to Psalms
• fol. 193r — Canon of the Mass
• fol. 194r — Vulgate Bible with Prologues, Proverbs to Revelation
• fol. 402r — Book of the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
• fol. 438r — Book of the Interpretation of Hebrew Names by Saint Jerome
• fol. 450r — Additional prayers

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Ownership Inscription, John Pemberton
• fol. 1r — Zoomorphic initial F
• fol. 17v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 29r — Zoomorphic initial U
• fol. 37v — Historiated initial L, Moses Speaks to two Israelites
• fol. 37v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 49r — Zoomorphic initial F
• fol. 49r — Historiated initial H, Moses Giving the Law
• fol. 59v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 67v — Historiated initial P, Messenger of Zebul reporting
• fol. 75v — Historiated initial I, Naomi and Elimelech
• fol. 76v — Zoomorphic initial U
• fol. 77r — Historiated initial F, Israelite smitten by Philistines and Ark of Covenant
• fol. 97r — Historiated initial E, David cherished by Abishag
• fol. 107r — Historiated initial P, Fall of Ahaziah
• fol. 117r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 117r — Historiated initial A, Descendants of Adam
• fol. 126r — Zoomorphic initial E
• fol. 126v — Zoomorphic initial C
• fol. 138v — Zoomorphic initial U
• fol. 139r — Historiated initial I, Ezra and Cyrus the Great
• fol. 142r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 147r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 152r — Zoomorphic initial C
• fol. 152r — Zoomorphic initial T
• fol. 155r — Zoomorphic initial A
• fol. 155v — Zoomorphic initial A
• fol. 159v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 160r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 164r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 164v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 164v — Historiated initial V, Job with his Wife
• fol. 178v — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 180v — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 182v — Zoomorphic initial S
• fol. 185r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 187v — Zoomorphic initial C
• fol. 189v — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 193r — Small miniature, Christ in Majesty with symbols of the Evangelists
• fol. 193r — Historiated initial T, Monk receiving the Sacraments
• fol. 194r — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 194r — Historiated initial P, Solomon expounding Proverbs
• fol. 200v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 200v — Historiated initial V, Ecclesiastes the Preacher
• fol. 203r — Historiated initial O, Virgin and Child
• fol. 204r — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 208v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 209r — Historiated initial O, The Wisdom of Solomon
• fol. 222r — Zoomorphic initial N
• fol. 222r — Historiated initial U, Martyrdom of Isaiah
• fol. 238r — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 238r — Zoomorphic initial U
• fol. 256v — Zoomorphic initial Q
• fol. 258v — Zoomorphic initial L
• fol. 258v — Zoomorphic initial E
• fol. 260v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 277v — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 278r — Historiated initial A, Daniel in the Lions' Den
• fol. 284v — Zoomorphic initial N
• fol. 284v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 285r — Historiated initial U, Hosea
• fol. 287r — Inhabited initial S
• fol. 287v — Historiated initial U, Joel
• fol. 288r — Zoomorphic initial O
• fol. 288v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 288v — Zoomorphic initial H
• fol. 288v — Historiated initial U, Amos
• fol. 290v — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 290v — Historiated initial U, Abdias
• fol. 291r — Zoomorphic initial S
• fol. 291r — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 291r — Historiated initial E, Jonah
• fol. 291v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 291v — Historiated initial, Micah
• fol. 293r — Zoomorphic initial N
• fol. 293r — Excised initial
• fol. 293v — Zoomorphic initial Q
• fol. 294r — Historiated initial O, Habakkuk
• fol. 295r — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 295r — Historiated initial U, Zephania
• fol. 296r — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 296r — Historiated initial I, Haggai
• fol. 296v — Zoomorphic initial A
• fol. 297r — Historiated initial I, Zacharias
• fol. 299v — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 299v — Historiated initial O, Malachi
• fol. 300v — Zoomorphic initial D
• fol. 300v — Zoomorphic initial R
• fol. 301r — Zoomorphic initial M
• fol. 301r — Historiated initial E, Mattathias slaying a Jew
• fol. 311r — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 318v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 319r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 319r — Historiated initial L, Tree of Jesse
• fol. 327r — Zoomorphic initial C
• fol. 327r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 331r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 331r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 333v — Zoomorphic initial G
• fol. 333v — Excised initial P
• fol. 335r — Zoomorphic initial E
• fol. 335r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 336r — Zoomorphic initial P
• fol. 336r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 337r — Zoomorphic initial C
• fol. 337r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 338r — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 338r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 339r — Zoomorphic initial A
• fol. 339r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 339v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 339v — Zoomorphic initial P
• fol. 340v — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 340v — Zoomorphic initial P
• fol. 341v — Zoomorphic initial T
• fol. 341v — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 342r — Zoomorphic initial P
• fol. 342r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 342r — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 342v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 345v — Zoomorphic initial L
• fol. 345v — Zoomorphic initial P
• fol. 350r — Marginal drawing, face
• fol. 353v — Marginal drawing, face
• fol. 354r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 354r — Historiated initial I, Saint Mark
• fol. 360v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 360v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 361r — Historiated initial F, Censing the Altar
• fol. 372r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 372r — Historiated initial I, Saint John and an Apostle
• fol. 380v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 380v — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 390v — Zoomorphic initial N
• fol. 390v — Historiated initial J, Saint James
• fol. 392r — Historiated initial P, Saint Peter
• fol. 393r — Historiated initial S, Saint Simon
• fol. 393v — Inhabited initial Q, Saint John
• fol. 394v — Inhabited initial S, Saint John
• fol. 395r — Inhabited initial S, Saint John
• fol. 395r — Inhabited initial J, Saint Jude
• fol. 395v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 396r — Excised initial P
• fol. 402r — Zoomorphic initial P
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Ownership Inscription, John Pemberton