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

Title

Bible

Other related names

• Fitzwilliam, George W, former owner
• 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 31
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 11

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Oxford?, England

Summary

This manuscript is a Vulgate Bible written in England in the second quarter of the thirteenth century. It has typical layout in two columns and decorations of red and blue initials, running titles, and chapter numbers. The Bible is followed by a concordance written in three columns.

Notes

• Flyleaves paper, except for first flyleaf, which together with its conjoint pastedown is a fragment of a page from chapters 14 and 15 of Acts in a larger late fourteenth-century Bible; back pastedown is a fragment from the same manuscript, also Acts 14
   

Extent

V+329+iv; 222 x 165 mm bound to 238 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2-7 (8), 8 (9, +1), 9 (8), 10 (10, leaf in position 10 has been replaced), 11 (10, leaf in position 10 has been replaced), 12 (8, -5 -6 -7), 13 (8), 14 (8, +1 +2 -7 -8), 15 (9, +9), 16 (9, +9), 17-18 (8), 19 (5, +5), 20-21 (6), 22-24 (8), 25 (2), 26-28 (8), 29 (9, +9), 30 (8, +1 +8), 31 (2)

Signatures

Final three quires (the concordance) signed in red ink, a-f, a-f with a bar over each letter, and i-viii, lower right recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, mostly trimmed away, now only visible on quires 2, 5, 9, 11, and 22 (fols. 14v, 50v, 98v, 122v, 254v)

Binding

Mid sixteenth-century English, cream-colored pigskin over boards, with two sets of clasps; gilt-tooled with center medallion surmounted by a stamp with the monogram of Christ (IHS) and framed by a double-lined border; gilt edges; pastedowns are fragments of a large-format New Testament (fourteenth century); pages have been trimmed

Layout

Written in two columns of sixty-two to- sixty-five lines (concordance written in three columns of sixty-one to-sixty-seven lines); frame-ruled in lead with double horizontal bounding lines and text beginning below the line; written area: 170 x 103 mm

Decoration

Elaborate red and blue flourished initials with penwork tracery extensions; running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• George W. Fitzwilliam of Milton Hall, Peterborough (sold 1918); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Ex Libris of George W. Fitzwilliam pasted onto verso of third flyleaf, reads: "Milton, Peterborough"; Printed catalog entries pasted onto the recto of the first paper flyleaf in the front and the recto of the second flyleaf in the back of the book
   

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. 11.
• 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. 39, no. 31.

Keywords

• Bible
• Christian
• England
• 13th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Vulgate Bible
• fol. 291r — Concordance; incipit: Incipiunt concordantie biblie distincte per quinque libros...[fol. 291r]; explicit: Respice fides tua te sal[vum fecit] [fol. 329v]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 5 verso — Bookplate, George W. Fitzwilliam, "Milton, Peterborough"
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 45r — Manicule