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

Title

Bible

Other related names

• Mathurin atelier, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/125395268/)
• Marie-François Duchesne de Beaumanoir, former owner
• Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2001020794.html)
• Livermore, George, 1809-1865, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85367655.html)
• Hill, Dana, former owner
• Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81098947.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner
• Hoe, Robert, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 28
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 7

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This compact Parisian bible contains the letter and prologue of Saint Jerome, the Latin text of the Vulgate, and an alphabetical list of Hebrew names with their interpretations. The final folio contains notes and finding aids in an early hand. The book was produced in the mid-thirteenth century. It is decorated with seven historiated initials (Saint Jerome, fol. 1r; the Seven Days of Creation, fol. 5r; Solomon Teaching, fol. 297r; the Martyrdom of Isaiah, fol. 338v; Hosea Speaking to God, fol. 427r; Saint Paul, fol. 529r; and the Ascension, fol. 163v). Foliate illuminated initials, some inhabited with zoomorphic motifs, mark the beginning of the remaining books. Chapters are marked by alternating red and blue initials with contrasting marginal sprays.

Notes

• Fols. i-iii are modern parchment flyleaves; fol. iv is an older but not original flyleaf
   
• "On fol. iiir is a faint modern inscription and a pasted-in paper slip in micrographic script, in Italian"
   
• Fol. ivr signed "George Livermore, Dana Hill, Cambridge;" and "From the library of his royal Highness the duke of Sussex. Bought in London 1845."
   
• Fol 1r: signed "E. Lib. Mariae Francisci Duchesne de Beaumanoir, 1823." ; a Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum belonging to the same owner, with a similar inscription, can be found at Harvard: Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Lat. 48
   
• Historiated initial showing the Seven Days of Creation on fol. 5r originally terminated with the Crucifixion, now removed; transfer visible on facing leaf; catalogue of the Biblioteca Sussexiana (1827) mentions the Crucifixion as intact
   
• Corrections, notations, and marginal drawings by contemporary hands throughout
   

Extent

Iv+653+iii; 156 x 100 mm bound to 163 x 110 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (22), 2-10 (24), 11 (22), 12 (8), 13 (24), 14 (4), 15-20 (24), 21 (24, -18), 22-25 (24), 26 (22), 27-28 (24), 29 (24, +1 +24)

Signatures

Partially cropped original signatures in brown ink, generally marking a-m, visible in some lower right rectos of first halves of gatherings; erased signatures from later rebinding in lead, visible in lower right recto positions

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Partially cropped horizontal catchword visible in lower right corner at fol. 292v

Binding

Circa 1900, French, brown morocco, gilt spray tooling on sides and back, brown morocco doublures with gold tooled borders, by Émile-Philippe Mercier (1855-1910); front doublure stamped MERCIER SC. DE CUZIN

Layout

Two of columns of forty-eight lines, ruled in lead; written area: 113 x 68 mm

Decoration

Seven historiated initials in the style of the Mathurin atelier (attributed by Debra Taylor Cashion); eighty-two five-to-seven-line illuminated initials at beginning of each book, some inhabited; alternating red and blue initials with penwork elongations in alternating colors, running titles throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a

Provenance

• Marie-François Duchesne de Beaumanoir (1823); Duke of Sussex, London; his sale London (1844) to Thomas Thorpe; George Livermore (1809-1865), Dana Hill, Cambridge, MA; William Stuart sale, London (6 March 1895, n. 4) to Nichols; Robert Hoe, New York; his sale, Anderson Auction Company, New York (8 January 1912, II, n. 2426); A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, Bibliotheca Sussexiana (London, 1827), vol. 1:1, p. lxxiii, no. 9.
• Hoe, Robert, A Catalogue of Manuscripts forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe (New York, 1909), p. 6.
• Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York; illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, historical bindings, early English literature, rare Americana, French illustrated books, eighteenth century English authors, autographs, manuscripts, etc. ... To be sold by auction... by the Anderson auction company... (New York, 1911-1912), vol. 2, no. 2426.
• 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. 2026, no. 7.
• 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), pp. 35-36, no. 28.

Keywords

• 13th century
• French
• France
• Bible
• Illustration
• Scripture
• Biblical
• Christian

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Table of contents

• Insert recto — Catalogue clipping
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Ownership notes; micrographic clipping
• Flyleaf 4 verso — Ownership notes
• fol. 1r — Vulgate Bible
• fol. 597r — Alphabetical Interpretation of Hebrew Names
• fol. 653v — Notes and finding aids in early hands
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Ownership notes; micrographic clipping

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Robert Hoe
• fol. 1r — Historiated initial F, Saint Jerome
• fol. 4r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 5r — Historiated initial I, Seven days of Creation
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 62r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 80r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 97r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 108v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 123v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 140v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 150v — Marginal drawing of head
• fol. 154v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 171r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 187r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 201v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 224v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 231r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 238r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 243r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 249r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 256r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 273r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 297r — Historiated initial P, King Solomon
• fol. 300v — Marginal drawing of head
• fol. 306v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 323r — Manicule
• fol. 338v — Historiated initial U, Martyrdom of Isaiah
• fol. 361r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 386v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 392r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 416v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 427r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 427r — Historiated initial U, Hosea speaking to God
• fol. 430v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 432v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 435r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 440v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 448r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 463r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 474r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 474r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 489v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 499v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 516v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 529r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul
• fol. 535r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 541v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 545v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 547v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 549v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 552v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 553v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 554v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 556r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 557v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 558r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 558v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 563v — Historiated initial P, Ascension
• fol. 581r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 582r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 585r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 587r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 588v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 597r — Illuminated initial A
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Robert Hoe