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

Title

Bible, glossed minor prophets; Missal

Other related names

• H.P. Kraus (Firm), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/104223265)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 243
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1531620

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This manuscript is a thirteenth-century copy of the books of the Minor Prophets, from Hosea to Malachi, with interlinear and marginal glosses. The end of Malachi is missing, with the text and gloss breaking off at Malachi 4:5. A historiated initial with a prophet portrait marks the beginning of each book. The text is arranged in three columns, with the Bible text written in larger script on every other line, mostly in the center column but sometimes extending into the left or right column. The marginal gloss is written in smaller script in the left and right columns. The text begins above the upper bounding line on each page. The manuscript was written and illuminated in Paris between approximately 1220 and 1230. The third front flyleaf is a fragment from a missal written in northern France in the second half of the thirteenth century, with readings for the fourth Sunday after Easter followed by the Epistle and Gospel readings for Wednesday after the Fourth Sunday, which also appear in the Bec Missal (also thirteenth century) but not later missals. The missal fragment is frame-ruled in ink (written area: 248 x 165 mm) and the text is written in two columns of twenty-eight lines, with the margins deeply trimmed, especially the inner margin.

Notes

• Many of the lower edges of the pages have been repaired with newer parchment
   
• Three front flyleaves, two eighteenth-century paper followed by a parchment fragment from a thirteenth-century missal; two back flyleaves, eighteenth-century paper
   

Extent

Iii+90+ii; 330 x 228 mm bound to 340 x 232 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (7, +7), 2-14 (8), 15 (6)

Signatures

Quires 1-11 signed i-xi, in ink, lower center last verso, a few trimmed away (fols. 32v, 40v, 64v)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower right last verso (fols. 16v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 88v), several trimmed away (fols. 8v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 72v, 80v)

Binding

Early eighteenth-century mottled leather, gilt-stamped spine, labeled IN XI[I] PROPH. MINO[R]; loose hinges, leather deteriorating along spine

Layout

Three columns of fifty-six lines, frame-ruled in lead, prickings visible in inner and lower margins; biblical text written in the center column in larger script on alternate lines; text begins above the line; written area: 204 x 140 mm

Decoration

Twelve historiated initials, two approximately twelve-line decorated initials (fol. 1r), one five-line decorated initial (fol. 60v); running titles in alternating red and blue letters; alternating red and blue flourished two-line initials throughout; alternating red and blue paragraph markers, some flourished, throughout; missal fragment (Flyleaf 3) has one five-line initial, one seven-line initial, several one-line initials, and rubrication in red, and other initials within the text touched with red

Script

Gothic--textualis

Larger script for biblical text, smaller text for gloss

Provenance

• Alexander William or James Ludovic Lindsay, Earls of Crawford (1812-1830 and 1847-1913 respectively); engraved bookplate of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earls of Crawford, inside front cover; sold by H.P. Kraus to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1969
   

Keywords

• Bible
• 13th century
• French
• Gloss
• Historiated initial
• France

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 3 recto — Fragment from a missal
• fol. 1r — Minor Prophets, glossed

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earls of Crawford
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 1v — Historiated initial U, Hosea
• fol. 19v — Historiated initial U, Joel
• fol. 26r — Historiated initial U, Amos
• fol. 38r — Historiated initial U, Obadiah
• fol. 40v — Historiated initial E, Jonah
• fol. 44v — Historiated initial U, Micah
• fol. 52v — Historiated initial O, Nahum
• fol. 57r — Historiated initial O, Habakkuk
• fol. 60v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 62v — Historiated initial U, Sophonias
• fol. 67r — Historiated initial I, Haggai
• fol. 70v — Historiated initial I, Zechariah
• fol. 86v — Historiated initial O, Malachi