Details

Standardized Title:

Bible. Latin. Vulgate

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminated manuscripts.
Bibles.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Latin.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Bible in 2 volumes (Old and New Testament) with prologues. The Interpretation of Hebrew names (in the same hand as the Bible) and highly abbreviated capitula lists for most of the Old Testament (in a slightly larger, less formal hand) follow the New Testament.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: V.1: Parchment, 360; 1-97a, 97b-359; V.2: Parchment, 140; 1-121a, 121b-128a, 128b-138; modern pencil foliation, lower left verso.
Layout: Bible written in 2 columns of 50 lines; Interpretation of Names written in 3 columns of 50 lines; capitula lists written in 3 columns of 46-49 lines.
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Decoration: Puzzle initials at the beginning of each book, with flourishing, and three with faces as part of their ornamentation (v. 1, f. 1r, 3v; v. 2, f. 1r); red and blue minor initials, with contrasting flourishing; red and blue running titles and chapter numeration. The use of teal for the contrasting flourishing of red initials suggests English origins. There are a number of errors in the rubrication.
Binding: Stamped leather with remnants of two braided leather ties on the lower cover of each volume.
Origin: Probably written in England in the 13th century.
Forms part of: Yarnall Collection.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John Hinely (signature, v. 1, f. 32r), possibly the Reverend John Henley (1692-1756).
Formerly owned by Albert May Todd (bookplate, v.1, inside upper cover).
Yarnall Library of Theology, St. Clement's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (bookplate, v.1, f. i recto); pencil note on the page before the text in each volume suggests the Yarnall Library acquired the Bible from Albright in 1942 (f. iii recto).
Deposited with the Yarnall Library at the University of Pennsylvania, 1974.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1053.

Contributor:

Hinely, John, former owner.
Todd, Albert May, 1850-1931, former owner.

Contains:

Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum.

OCLC:

155930790

Access Restriction:

Volume 2: Access to this item is subject to staff review.