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

Title

Bible

Other related names

• Abbot von Heselwang, former owner
• Richardson, Thomas F., 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 33
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 5

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This manuscript is a thirteenth-century Paris Bible.

Notes

• Very worn inscription on front pastedown tells that the manuscript is from the monastery of Baumberg, near Traunsteinm, in Baveria and last belonged to Abbot von Heselwang
   

Extent

I+339+i; 148 x 98 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation, upper-right recto in pencil

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Seventeenth-century Flemish or French black morocco, elaborately tooled; stamp of the crucifixion in center of cover and on spine; clasps; gilt edges

Layout

Two columns of fifty-six lines; lead point ruling; written area: 110 x 72 mm

Decoration

Red and blue flourished initials throughout; marginal decoration and figures throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Abbot von Heselwang, Baumberg; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston (sold in 1919 ) to 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. 2025-2026, no. 5.
• 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. 41, no. 33.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Vulgate Bible; incipit: Frater Ambrosius mihi tua miniscula preferens . . .; explicit: Zuzim consiliantes eos vel consiliatores eorum
• fol. 1r — Vulgate Bible; incipit: Frater Ambrosius mihi tua miniscula preferens . . .; explicit: Zuzim consiliantes eos vel consiliatores eorum
• fol. 310v — Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Red and blue flourished initial F
• fol. 2v — Large red and blue flourished initial O
• fol. 3r — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 1r — Red and blue flourished initial F
• fol. 15v — Large red and blue flourished initial H
• fol. 26r — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 33v — Large red and blue flourished initial L
• fol. 44r — Large red and blue flourished initial H
• fol. 53r — Large red and blue flourished initial T
• fol. 53r — Large red and blue flourished initial E
• fol. 59v — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 66r — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 67r — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 67v — Large red and blue flourished initial F
• fol. 77r — Large red and blue flourished initial F
• fol. 88v — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 96v — Large red and blue flourished initial S
• fol. 97r — Large red and blue flourished initial A
• fol. 104r — Large red and blue flourished initial E
• fol. 104v — Large red and blue flourished initial C
• fol. 113v — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 120r — Large red and blue flourished initial E
• fol. 123v — Large red and blue flourished initial C
• fol. 123v — Large red and blue flourished initial T
• fol. 126r — Large red and blue flourished initial A
• fol. 126r — Large red and blue flourished initial A
• fol. 129v — Large red and blue flourished initial L
• fol. 133r — Large red and blue flourished initial C
• fol. 133v — Large red and blue flourished initial S
• fol. 133v — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 140r — Large red and blue flourished initial B
• fol. 142v — Large red and blue flourished initial D
• fol. 144r — Large red and blue flourished initial D
• fol. 145v — Large red and blue flourished initial D
• fol. 147r — Large red and blue flourished initial S
• fol. 150v — Large red and blue flourished initial C
• fol. 152r — Large red and blue flourished initial D
• fol. 156r — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 156r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 179r — Large red and blue flourished initial D
• fol. 179r — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 207r — Large red and blue flourished initial L
• fol. 207r — Large red and blue flourished initial E
• fol. 222v — Large red and blue flourished initial A
• fol. 227v — Large red and blue flourished initial N
• fol. 227v — Large red and blue flourished initial T
• fol. 227v — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 229r — Large red and blue flourished initial S
• fol. 229v — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 229v — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 230r — Large red and blue flourished initial O
• fol. 230r — Large red and blue flourished initial A
• fol. 230r — Large red and blue flourished initial H
• fol. 230v — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 231v — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 232r — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 232r — Large red and blue flourished initial S
• fol. 232r — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 232r — Large red and blue flourished initial E
• fol. 232v — Large red and blue flourished initial T
• fol. 232v — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 233v — Large red and blue flourished initial N
• fol. 234r — Large red and blue flourished initial O
• fol. 234r — Large red and blue flourished initial O
• fol. 234v — Large red and blue flourished initial O
• fol. 235r — Large red and blue flourished initial U
• fol. 235v — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 236r — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 236v — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 242v — Large red and blue flourished initial F
• fol. 248r — Large red and blue flourished initial M
• fol. 248r — Large red and blue flourished initial M
• fol. 256v — Large red and blue flourished initial M
• fol. 256v — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 262r — Large red and blue flourished initial Q
• fol. 262r — Large red and blue flourished initial F
• fol. 270v — Large red and blue flourished initial H
• fol. 270v — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 283r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 283r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 285r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 286r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 288r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 289r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 289v — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 290r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 290v — Large red and blue flourished initial I
• fol. 291r — Large red and blue flourished initial P
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• fol. 291v — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 292r — Large red and blue flourished initial M
• fol. 294v — Large red and blue flourished initial L
• fol. 294v — Large red and blue flourished initial P
• fol. 303r — Large red and blue flourished initial N