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Two volume Bible which includes the Gallicanum Psalter, the apocryphal 3 Ezra, and the standard set of prefaces with the exception of the omission of a prologue for Apocalypse, the inclusion of a prologue for Ecclesiasticus, and a variant ending to the prologue for Nahum.
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Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
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- Publisher
- [France?], [between 1275 and 1299]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 29.
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Text is followed by Interpretationes hebreorum nominum by St. Jerome (v. 2, fol. 354v-422v). Manicule (v. 2, fol. 231r). Occasional marginal notes.
- Collation: Parchment ; v. 1: fol. i (paper) + 442 + i (paper), v. 2: i (paper) + 422 + i (paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
- Layout: 41-42 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
- Description: Running title in alternating red and blue ; edges trimmed, running titles on volume 2 partially trimmed.
- Decoration: 13th-century Southern French Gothic decoration includes 66 historiated initials (v. 1) and 71 historiated initials (v. 2). Both volumes also contain simpler decorated initials, sometimes with animal terminals. Chapter open with 2- to 4-line gold initials on pink or blue fields. See the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 19-21 for detailed descriptions of the initials.
- Origin: Written in Southern France and decorated in the last quarter of the 13th century.
- Binding Note
- Later binding. France, 18th-century. Green morocco over pasteboard. Gold-tooling on edges and turn-ins. Gilt floral stamps on spine. Red paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands. Gilt edges.
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