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

Title

Bible; Notes on a church synod

Other related names

• Pistrucci, Benedetto, 1783-1855, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/79410310)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 32
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 13

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Oxford?, England

Summary

This manuscript is a thirteenth-century Vulgate Bible, written in England, lacking the Psalms and the prologue before Genesis. Many of the numerous brief marginal notes have been trimmed. The Bible is followed by the end of an incomplete Interpretation of Hebrew Names, starting in the letter S (fols. 249r-251r), and three pages of medieval notes (fols. 251v-252v). The published account of the first two articles (out of seven) agreed upon at a church synod that opened in London on 24 November 1584 is copied on a newer leaf at the end of the volume (fols. 253r-253v).

Notes

• Reader's note of scholarly references dated 1702 (fol. 136r); another reference in the same hand follows the 1584 synod articles (fol. 203r)
   

Extent

Iii+ 253+iv; 208 x 150 mm bound to 215 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late nineteenth-century brown morocco with tooling; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA LATINA; pages are trimmed with loss of marginal notes; marbled endpapers and pastedowns

Layout

Written in two columns of sixty to sixty-six lines, frame-ruled in ink with double horizontal bounding lines; Interpretation of Hebrew Names written in four columns of at least seventy-four lines (no upper margin, possible loss of text); written area: 160 x 110 mm (Bible), 192 x 140 mm (Interpretation of Hebrew Names)

Decoration

Red and blue flourished initials throughout; red and blue chapter numbers and running titles; rubrication in faded red ink

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Possibly owned by Roman-born British engraver Benedetto Pistrucci in the nineteenth century (1783-1855; inscription about his birth, "Benedetto Pistrucci nato in Roma il ventiquattro maggio del mille settecento ottantaquattro" in an extremely minute hand mounted on second flyleaf); sale by Sotheby (London, 23 July 1906, no. 441) to Bull; 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. 13.
• 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. 40, no. 32.

Keywords

• Bible
• Christian
• 13th century
• England
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Vulgate Bible (without Psalms)
• fol. 249r — Interpretation of Hebrew Names (partial)
• fol. 251v — [Early readers' notes]
• fol. 253r — Articuli per archiepiscopum, episcopos et reliquum clerum Cantuariensis provinciae ...

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 40r — Manicule
• fol. 245r — Manicule