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

Title

Bible

Other related names

• Labitte, Alphonse, 1853-, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/31986060/)
• 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 39
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 10

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a northern Italian Bible from the middle of the thirteenth century. It is decorated with sixteen historiated initials and numerous decorated and pen-flourished intials. Scrap leaves with chant notation and an index of incipits precede the Bible text, and the index of Hebrew names follows it.

Notes

• Armorial bookplate and printed catalog entry pasted onto inside of front cover
   
• Entry from Henry Young and Sons' Catalogue of Books pasted inside back cover
   

Extent

Iii+399+iv; 175 x 115 mm bound to 190 x 130 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (4), 2 (5, +5), 3-9 (12), 10 (8), 11-17 (12), 18 (10), 19-35 (12)

Signatures

Remnants of original signatures, lower right recto, fols. 46r-49r, 292r-297r; modern signatures in pencil, 1-32, lower right first recto, faint and erased

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Lower right last verso; some trimmed

Binding

Nineteenth-century (circa 1814-1830) black morocco, gilt with clasps and blind tooling with purple watered-silk paste-downs, by R. Simier with his ticket on front endpaper: "Simier Relieure du Roi, Rue St. Honore No. 152, à Paris"; stamped on spine in gold: "BIBLIA LATINA MANV-SCRIP TA"

Layout

Two columns of fifty-five lines; hard point ruling; written area: 107 x 72 mm

Decoration

Sixteen historiated initials; decorated and pen-flourished initials throughout

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Alphonse Labitte (1853-?); 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. 10.
• 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. 47, no. 39.
• de Hamel, Christopher. The Book: A History of the Bible (London: Phaidon Press, 2001), p. 119.

Keywords

• Bible
• 13th century
• Christian
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Scripture
• Biblical

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Scrap manuscript pages with notation (4 and 5-line staves)
• fol. 4r — Alphabetical index of incipits
• fol. 10r — Vulgate Bible
• fol. 374v — Table of incipits
• fol. 376r — Interpretation of Hebrew names

Decorations

• fol. 10r — Historiated initial F, Saint Jerome
• fol. 12v — Historiated initial I, Jesus Christ
• fol. 27r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 39v — Decorated initial V
• fol. 48r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 72v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 81r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 90r — Inhabited initial I, an older man
• fol. 91v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 114v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 125v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 136r — Inhabited initial T, Satyr masks
• fol. 139v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 139v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 144r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 144v — Inhabited initial I, Bull's head
• fol. 149r — Zoomorphic initial I, Lion
• fol. 149r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 149v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 149v — Historiated initial V, Job and the Devil
• fol. 159r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 159v — Historiated initial B, God and King David with harp
• fol. 163r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 165v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 168r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 170v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 173v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 176r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 178v — Historiated initial D, Jesus Christ
• fol. 179r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 184r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 190v — Decorated initial V
• fol. 192v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 193v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 198r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 209v — Historiated initial V, Prophet Isaiah
• fol. 224r — Historiated initial V, Prophet Jeremiah
• fol. 240r — Historiated initial Q, Prophet Jeremiah
• fol. 240v — Inhabited initial Q, Face
• fol. 241r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 241v — Historiated initial E, Prophet Baruch
• fol. 243v — Historiated initial E, Prophet Ezekiel and his vision
• fol. 258v — Historiated initial A, Prophet Daniel
• fol. 265r — Decorated initial V
• fol. 267v — Decorated initial V
• fol. 268v — Decorated initial V
• fol. 270r — Decorated initial V
• fol. 270v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 271r — Decorated initial V
• fol. 272v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 273r — Historiated initial O, Prophet Habakkuk
• fol. 274r — Decorated initial V
• fol. 274v — Historiated initial I, King Darius
• fol. 275v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 278r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 278v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 288r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 295r — Decorated initial B
• fol. 296r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 296r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 306r — Historiated initial I, Mark the Evangelist
• fol. 312v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 323v — Historiated initial I, Johannine eagle
• fol. 330v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 331r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 335r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 339r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 342r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 343r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 344v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 345v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 346v — Inhabited initial P, Bird
• fol. 347v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 348r — Inhabited initial P, Griffin
• fol. 349r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 349v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 350r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 350v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 353v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 364v — Inhabited initial I, Hybrid creature
• fol. 365v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 366v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 367v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 368v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 368v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 369r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 369r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 376r — Inhabited initial A, Saint or prophet?
• fol. 380r — Decorated initial B
• fol. 382r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 383v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 384r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 385r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 386r — Decorated initial G
• fol. 387r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 387v — Decorated initial I