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BIBLE with the Prologues attributed to St Jerome and the Interpretation of Hebrew names, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BIBLE with the Prologues attributed to St Jerome and the Interpretation of Hebrew names, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [England, 1st quarter 13th century] 294 x 222mm. 407 + iii leaves, mostly in gatherings of 8, modern correct pencil foliation at lower inner corner of text, apparently COMPLETE, two columns of 53 lines of gothic bookhand in brown/black ink between four verticals and on 43 horizontals ruled in brown, upper, lower and central three horizontals across margins and with additional pairs of horizontals in upper and lower margins, additional single vertical in central margin and pair of verticals in outer margin, justification: 208 x 57-10-56mm, written above top-line, paraphs alternately of red and blue, running-headings and chapter numbers in alternate letters of red or blue, line-fillers of red and blue, each Book opening with either a puzzle initial of red and blue flourished with the same colors or with the incipit in display script of alternate red and blue letters infilled with flourishing of the same colors, TEXT-HEIGHT INITIAL with staves of red and blue against a ground and infill of curling fronds and leaves coloured with washes of pinkish red, green and yellow (some thumbing of outer margins, occasional darkening, spotting or staining, especially affecting the final ten leaves, slight cropping to flourishing of running-headings). Modern pigskin-backed wooden boards with two brass fore-edge clasps, spine with four raised bands (minor scuffing to extremities). Blue morocco-backed case. PROVENANCE: John Edwards of Stansie: his signature dated 9 Julij 1603 on opening folio; C. P. Chester: his note of 1771 on second paper endleaf recording the acquisition of the manuscript by John Prescott, Rector of Waverton around 1720 from his aunt Jane Eyton who had it from the Edwards of Stansie near Wrexham; Acton Griscom (b.1891): his signature with the date 1926 on front modern vellum endleaf. CONTENT: Interpretation of Hebrew names in the version opening 'Aaz apprehendens' ff.1-28v; Vulgate Bible with Prologues ff.29-407; a prologue to the Apocalyse opening 'Omnes qui pie volunt vivere' (Stegmüller 839) and a prologue on Chronicles opening 'Si septuaginta intepretum pura' (Stegmüller 328) added in a near-contemporary hand ff.407-407v; Epistle and Gospel readings for the course of the church year added in a 14th-century hand ff.408-411v. This is a handsome single-volume Bible. The relatively large format, the fact that it is written above top-line and the placing of the Interpretation of Hebrew names at the beginning of the volume demonstrate its manufacture at an early stage in the evolution of the single-volume Bible. These came to be small portable volumes, containing the Biblical books in a standardized order and were produced in great numbers throughout the 13th century. They determined the enduring physical form that the Bible would take. Their development and production is particularly, and no doubt correctly, associated with Paris but they were also made in significant quantity in Italy and England, often with some variation from the Parisian model. One of the common differences in English copies is that they, like the present manuscript, contain no Book of Psalms.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 91
Auktion:
Datum:
27.06.2006 - 28.06.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
27-28 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BIBLE with the Prologues attributed to St Jerome and the Interpretation of Hebrew names, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BIBLE with the Prologues attributed to St Jerome and the Interpretation of Hebrew names, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [England, 1st quarter 13th century] 294 x 222mm. 407 + iii leaves, mostly in gatherings of 8, modern correct pencil foliation at lower inner corner of text, apparently COMPLETE, two columns of 53 lines of gothic bookhand in brown/black ink between four verticals and on 43 horizontals ruled in brown, upper, lower and central three horizontals across margins and with additional pairs of horizontals in upper and lower margins, additional single vertical in central margin and pair of verticals in outer margin, justification: 208 x 57-10-56mm, written above top-line, paraphs alternately of red and blue, running-headings and chapter numbers in alternate letters of red or blue, line-fillers of red and blue, each Book opening with either a puzzle initial of red and blue flourished with the same colors or with the incipit in display script of alternate red and blue letters infilled with flourishing of the same colors, TEXT-HEIGHT INITIAL with staves of red and blue against a ground and infill of curling fronds and leaves coloured with washes of pinkish red, green and yellow (some thumbing of outer margins, occasional darkening, spotting or staining, especially affecting the final ten leaves, slight cropping to flourishing of running-headings). Modern pigskin-backed wooden boards with two brass fore-edge clasps, spine with four raised bands (minor scuffing to extremities). Blue morocco-backed case. PROVENANCE: John Edwards of Stansie: his signature dated 9 Julij 1603 on opening folio; C. P. Chester: his note of 1771 on second paper endleaf recording the acquisition of the manuscript by John Prescott, Rector of Waverton around 1720 from his aunt Jane Eyton who had it from the Edwards of Stansie near Wrexham; Acton Griscom (b.1891): his signature with the date 1926 on front modern vellum endleaf. CONTENT: Interpretation of Hebrew names in the version opening 'Aaz apprehendens' ff.1-28v; Vulgate Bible with Prologues ff.29-407; a prologue to the Apocalyse opening 'Omnes qui pie volunt vivere' (Stegmüller 839) and a prologue on Chronicles opening 'Si septuaginta intepretum pura' (Stegmüller 328) added in a near-contemporary hand ff.407-407v; Epistle and Gospel readings for the course of the church year added in a 14th-century hand ff.408-411v. This is a handsome single-volume Bible. The relatively large format, the fact that it is written above top-line and the placing of the Interpretation of Hebrew names at the beginning of the volume demonstrate its manufacture at an early stage in the evolution of the single-volume Bible. These came to be small portable volumes, containing the Biblical books in a standardized order and were produced in great numbers throughout the 13th century. They determined the enduring physical form that the Bible would take. Their development and production is particularly, and no doubt correctly, associated with Paris but they were also made in significant quantity in Italy and England, often with some variation from the Parisian model. One of the common differences in English copies is that they, like the present manuscript, contain no Book of Psalms.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 91
Auktion:
Datum:
27.06.2006 - 28.06.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
27-28 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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