Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 1. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Wooden boards [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Clasps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

Composite volume made up of two imperfect 13th-century Bibles, combined to make a single manuscript. There are lacunae in most books, and several books are omitted entirely. Part I (fol. 1r-146v) is non-standard in both its arrangement of books and selection of prologues, and it has extensive marginal annotation, often with alphabetic tie-marks to glosses. Part II (fol. 147r-192v) is a southern French or Italian Bible, which runs from Habakkuk to the beginning of Apocalypse, ending incomplete . The text is standard in order, but includes several prologues not found in Parisian Bibles.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from incipit (fol. [i]r).
• Table of contents (fol. [i]r). Marginal annotations.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. i + 192 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 53-60 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
• Description: Running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue capitals.
• Decoration: Red and blue flourished initials for book openings. Chapters open with smaller red or blue initials with flourishes of the opposite color. One initial decorated with a dragon (fol. 191r).

Binding note

Later binding. Italy, 15th century. Pink-stained alum-tawed skin over wooden board (8-9 mm thick). Blind-tooled in concentric frames intersected by a cross saltire. Traces of later repairs and a wallpaper covering. Endbands. Two sets of 4 metal pins on upper cover remain of clasps.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Textualis libraria.

Provenance

Early and intermediate provenance unknown. Purchased by the Library on April 12, 1893 and accessioned as no. 88334.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 155-157.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

• Italy
• France

OCLC

1600267849

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