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

Title

Bible

Other related names

• Butler, Charles, 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 38
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 6

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Siena?, Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a Bible written in Italy, perhaps Siena, in the thirteenth century. Each book of the Bible begins with a historiated initial; approximately ten initials have been cut out, as well as outer half of the fourth leaf. The text of the Bible is written in two columns of rotunda script; it is followed by The Interpretation of Hebrew Names, also in two columns, which is missing the entries at the end after Zava. Copious marginal notes added by a reader to the Christian scriptures have been largely trimmed away in rebinding (for example, fols. 396v-404r).

Extent

Ii+ 532+iii; 228 x 165 mm bound to 240 x 185 mm

Foliation

Modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; references in this entry are to the modern foliation

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Seventeenth-century French brown calf with gilt pomegranate ornamentation in corners and on spine, edges of leaves mottled in red and brown; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA

Layout

Two columns of forty-nine lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 148 x 95 mm

Decoration

Seventy-two historiated initials in gold; several initials have been cut out (for example, fols. 222v, 236v, 363v, 393v, 441r, 455v, 457v, 486v); marginal extensions; penwork tracery in red and blue; running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters; rubrication in red; very few manicules (fol. 474v)

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Formerly held in the library of the Franciscan Friars Minor of Verdun (eighteenth-century inscription, "Ex Bibliotheca ff. Minimoru[m] Virdin," fol. 1r); No. 503 in an early English sale catalog; Charles Butler sale (London, 18 July 1921, no. 415) to Davis and Orioli; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Bible
• 13th century
• Italian
• Illumination
• Historiated initial
• Gothic
• Italy
• Biblical
• Scripture
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Vulgate Bible
• fol. 496v — Interpretation of Hebrew Names (partial); incipit: Aaz apprehendens [fol. 495v]; explicit: Zava iniquus vel iniquitas [fol. 532v]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Ink drawing, Creature
• fol. 1r — Historiated initial F, Saint Jerome
• fol. 1r — Inhabited illuminated border
• fol. 1r — Hippogriff marginalia
• fol. 4r (stub) — Inhabited illuminated border (damaged) w/ drollery
• fol. 24r — Historiated initial H, Moses and three younger men
• fol. 24r — Crane marginalia
• fol. 40v — Historiated initial U, God speaking to Moses
• fol. 51v — Historiated initial L, Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
• fol. 68r — Historiated initial H, Moses proclaiming the Ten Commandments
• fol. 82v — Historiated initial E, God speaking to Joshua
• fol. 92r — Historiated initial P, God speaking with the Israelites
• fol. 102v — Historiated initial I, Naomi with Elimelech and sons
• fol. 105r — Historiated initial F, Eli and Hannah
• fol. 119r — Historiated initial F, King David and the beheading of the Amalekite
• fol. 130v — Historiated initial E, King David in bed and two attendants
• fol. 144r — Historiated initial P, Elijah standing by the bed of King Ahaziah
• fol. 156v — Historiated initial A, Jesus and Adam
• fol. 168r — Historiated initial C, King Solomon
• fol. 182r — Historiated initial I, King Cyrus and two men
• fol. 185v — Historiated initial U, Nehemiah writing
• fol. 191r — Historiated initial E, Josiah aspersing the altar
• fol. 197r — Historiated initial T, Tobit and a fish
• fol. 200v — Historiated initial A, Judith slaying Holofernes
• fol. 206r — Historiated initial I, Ahasuerus and Mordecai crowned
• fol. 206r — Small miniature, Haman hanged
• fol. 211v — Historiated initial U, Job and friends
• fol. 224v — Historiated initial D, God the Father points to David's eye
• fol. 227r — Historiated initial D, King David
• fol. 229r — Historiated initial D, King David and the fool
• fol. 231v — Historiated initial S, King David in the waters praying to God
• fol. 234r — Historiated initial E, King David playing bells
• fol. 239r — Historiated initial D, The Trinity
• fol. 245r — Historiated initial P, King Solomon with rod teaching child
• fol. 253r — Historiated initial U, King Solomon and a young man
• fol. 256r — Historiated initial O, Virgin and Child
• fol. 257v — Historiated initial D, Solomon teaching
• fol. 263v — Historiated initial O, Sirach
• fol. 279v — Historiated initial U, Martyrdom of Isaiah
• fol. 298v — Historiated initial U, Martyrdom of Jeremiah
• fol. 319v — Historiated initial Q, Jeremiah lamenting over Jerusalem
• fol. 321v — Historiated initial E, Baruch writing
• fol. 324v — Historiated initial E, Ezekiel and the vision of four creatures
• fol. 344r — Historiated initial A, Daniel in Lions' Den
• fol. 352v — Historiated initial U, Hosea and Gomer
• fol. 355v — Historiated initial U, Joel prophesying
• fol. 357r — Historiated initial U, God speaking to Amos with his flock
• fol. 359v — Historiated initial U, Obadiah prophesying
• fol. 360r — Historiated initial E, Jonah in the mouth of the whale
• fol. 361r — Historiated initial U, Micah and the Temple
• fol. 362v — Historiated initial O, Nahum
• fol. 363v — Half of an historiated initial O
• fol. 364v — Historiated initial U, God speaking to Zephaniah
• fol. 365v — Historiated initial I, Haggai
• fol. 366v — Historiated initial I, Zechariah and the vision of the woman in a vessel
• fol. 369v — Historiated initial O, Malachi prophesying
• fol. 370v — Historiated initial E, Mattathias slaying Jewish apostate
• fol. 383r — Zoomorphic historiated initial F, Maccabee with letter from the Jews
• fol. 393v — Historiated initial L, Tree of Jesse (partial, damaged)
• fol. 406v — Historiated initial I, Evangelist portrait, Mark
• fol. 415r — Historiated initial F, Evangelist portrait, Luke
• fol. 429v — Historiated initial I, Evangelist portrait, John
• fol. 441r — Illuminated historiated border
• fol. 446r — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul preaching
• fol. 450v — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul being lowered in a basket
• fol. 454r — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul preaching
• fol. 455v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 457v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 458v — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul in prison
• fol. 460r — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul with letter
• fol. 461r — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul with Letter
• fol. 461v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 463r — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul and Titus as a bishop
• fol. 463v — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul and Titus as a bishop
• fol. 464v — Historiated initial P, Apostle Paul in prison baptizing Ones Imus
• fol. 464v — Historiated initial M, Apostle Paul preaching
• fol. 468v — Historiated initial P, Apostles with Peter in front
• fol. 474v — Manicule
• fol. 482v — Historiated initial I, Saint James
• fol. 484r — Historiated initial P, Saint Peter
• fol. 485v — Historiated initial S, Saint Peter
• fol. 486v — Illuminated border
• fol. 488r — Historiated initial S, Saint John writing
• fol. 488r — Historiated initial S, Saint John
• fol. 488r — Historiated initial I, Saint Jude
• fol. 488v — Illuminated border
• fol. 489r — Historiated initial A, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Ink drawing, Creature