Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Mulse, Edmunde [Browse]
• Sunderland, Anne Churchill, Countess of, 1674-1722 [Browse]
• Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1675-1722 [Browse]
• Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758 [Browse]
• Scheide, John Hinsdale, 1875-1942 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Scheide 6. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Armorial bindings [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Manicules [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• historiated initials [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]
• diagrams [Browse]
• tables (documents) [Browse]

Contains

• Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349. Postillae perpetuae. [Browse]
• Petrus, Wiensis, -1183. Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi. [Browse]
• Fieschi, Niccolò, approximately 1456-1524. De usuris et circumstantiis usurarum. [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

Bible, including Old and New Testaments, with supplementary texts written in later 14th- to 16th-century hands.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Marginal notes. Running header in red and blue. Manicle (fol. 390r).
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 408 + i (paper).
• Layout: 60 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
• Decoration: Large historiated initial depicting the seven days of Creation (fol. 6r). Several 7- to 11-line initials in blue and red with scrollwork fill ; alternating red and blue 1-line initials throughout text. Tables and diagrams.
• Origin: Written in France in the last quarter of the 13th century.

Binding note

Later binding. Brown calf (ca. 1700); gold-stamped with the arms of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758). Gilt stamped design on spine.

Language note

Latin.

Contents

• Fol. 1r-3v: Prologues and Postillae in Testamentum Vetus and a gloss to Genesis and Exodus / Nicolaus de Lyra.
• Fol. 4r-281r: Old Testament (Genesis to Maccabees II).
• Fol. 281r-343r: New Testament (Matthew to Revelation)
• Fol. 344r-389r: Interpretationes hebraiccorum nominum.
• Fol. 390r-397r: Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi / Petrus Pictaviensis. Contains genealogical tables and diagrams.
• Fol. 397v: Astronomical and Easter circular tables.
• Fol. 398r-399v: De VII dona Spiritus Sancti [trees of virtues and vices].
• Fol. 399v: Articuli fidei XII / ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
• F. 400r: Arbor viciorum.
• F. 401r: Arbor virtutum.
• Fol. 402r-403v: De manu.
• Fol. 404r: Decum precepta.
• Fol. 405r: De usuris et circumstantiis usurarum / Nicolaus de Flisco.
• Fol. 405v-407r: Index epistolarum et evangeliorum [for Worcester].
• Fol. 407v: List of books in Old and New Testament (Genesis to Revelation).
• 408r-408v: Index epistolarum et evangeliorum [for Worcester].

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Provenance

Previously owned by Rychard, Hudson, Edmunde Mulse; belonged to Anne Churchill, later Countess of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722); his sale (London, 1881, I. n. 1336) to Sabin; Obtained by John H. Scheide (1924) from W.M. Voynich. Scheide's bookplate (upper pastedown)

References

De Ricci, p. 2121, no. 6

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

France

Other title(s)

Biblia

OCLC

54747079

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