[Biblia].
- Publication:
- [Arras, France], [1275-1299?]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
330 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 375 x 246 (264 x 154) mm bound to 400 x 280 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3st7f229 - Status/Location:
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- Standardized Title:
- Bible. Latin. Vulgate
- Subjects:
- Illumination of books and manuscripts -- France -- Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
France. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Bibles.
Illuminated manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Specimens. - Language:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Vulgate Bible, with prologues for several books. Chapter divisions are generally more English or German than Parisian.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Parchment, 330; [1-330]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 56-58 lines, with illuminated border on the left edge of one or both columns on most pages.
Script: Written in a Gothic script, appears to be the work of a single scriptorium.
Decoration: Illuminated series of miniatures in a full-page initial at the beginning of Genesis, depicting the 7 days of Creation and the Crucifixion (f. 3v); historiated initials at the beginning of each subsequent book, a few integrated with an illuminated border; ornamented capitals, many with animals or animal faces in gold, rose, blue, red, and other colors on nearly every page; drolleries with animals and grotesques throughout.
Binding: 18th- or 19th-century pigskin with oak boards and the remains of clasps.
Origin: Possibly written and illuminated in Arras, France, in the last quarter of the 13th century.
Generally in good condition. First 3 folios and final folio are badly stained, some other folios show some water damage, a few of the miniatures have been damaged by water or deliberately defaced (for example, f. 156r, 247v). - Penn Provenance:
- Presented by Catherine and Thomas Coleman (1598-1647; f. 151r, 250r, 259r) to Ellis Fitzpatrick (f. 250r, 329r); William Farrell (f. 329r); T. Edward Ross (bookplate inside front cover).
Gift of T. Edward Ross, 1947. - Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 5 (Ms. Latin 20).
Listed in A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection of Bibles Presented to the University of Pennsylvania Library (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, 1947), p. 19. - Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 724.
- OCLC:
- 155985499
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.