Item Summary

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.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Bible]
Call Number
Princeton MS. 1
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4f16cg79w
Publisher
[Italy or Southern France?] [between 1225 and 1250]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1225-1250
Format
Manuscript
Extent
192 leaves : parchment ; 240 x 159 (161-165 x 115-117) mm bound to 243 x 163 mm.
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.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
390

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2afe967a-5a6c-440a-aa3f-6bc025114fe9/manifest