Description
Alternative title
Biblia
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 4 + 670
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 39 lines
Height (mm)
169
Width (mm)
118
Collation
4 vellum flyleaves, 1(20)-31(20) 32(10) | 33(20) 34(20).
Writing
in excellent small hand
Foliation
ff. a-c + i-iv + 1-670
Provenance
Purchased in August, 1890, by the Rev. S. S. Lewis of Mrs Augusta Boyes. It was formerly in the library of a Mr Foster, of Springhead, in Yorkshire. Letters relating to the purchase are in the book.
Additions
Old binding rebacked: clasps gone.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 484 is a small thirteenth-century Latin portable Bible, made in England and dating to c. 1270-90, which includes Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum. Most of the biblical books have fine ornamental initials, but only seven contain figures. It is closely related in its illumination to a much more elaborately decorated English Bible, Princeton, University Library, Garrett 28, dating to c. 1270-80. Two letters regarding the purchase of the Bible by Rev. S. S. Lewis from Mrs. Augusta Boyes in 1890 are also bound into the volume, but reveal little more regarding its provenance; only that the volume was from the library of Mr. Foster of Springhead in Yorkshire.
- Contents
- BibleInterpretationes nominum Hebraicorum
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