Item Summary

Bible, including Old and New Testaments, with supplementary texts written in later 14th- to 16th-century hands.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Bible].
Call Number
83.9
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0r967h967
Publisher
[France], [between 1275 and 1299]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1275-1299
Extent
408 leaves : parchment ; 263 x 165 (167 x 100) mm bound to 273 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Previously owned by Rychard, Hudson, Edmunde Mulse; belonged to Anne Churchill, later Countess of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722); his sale (London, 1881, I. n. 1336) to Sabin; Obtained by John H. Scheide (1924) from W.M. Voynich. Scheide's bookplate (upper pastedown)
References
De Ricci, p. 2121, no. 6
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
Fol. 1r-3v: Prologues and Postillae in Testamentum Vetus and a gloss to Genesis and Exodus / Nicolaus de Lyra.
Fol. 4r-281r: Old Testament (Genesis to Maccabees II).
Fol. 281r-343r: New Testament (Matthew to Revelation)
Fol. 344r-389r: Interpretationes hebraiccorum nominum.
Fol. 390r-397r: Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi / Petrus Pictaviensis. Contains genealogical tables and diagrams.
Fol. 397v: Astronomical and Easter circular tables.
Fol. 398r-399v: De VII dona Spiritus Sancti [trees of virtues and vices].
Fol. 399v: Articuli fidei XII / ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
F. 400r: Arbor viciorum.
F. 401r: Arbor virtutum.
Fol. 402r-403v: De manu.
Fol. 404r: Decum precepta.
Fol. 405r: De usuris et circumstantiis usurarum / Nicolaus de Flisco.
Fol. 405v-407r: Index epistolarum et evangeliorum [for Worcester].
Fol. 407v: List of books in Old and New Testament (Genesis to Revelation).
408r-408v: Index epistolarum et evangeliorum [for Worcester].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Running header in red and blue. Manicle (fol. 390r).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 408 + i (paper).
Layout: 60 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Decoration: Large historiated initial depicting the seven days of Creation (fol. 6r). Several 7- to 11-line initials in blue and red with scrollwork fill ; alternating red and blue 1-line initials throughout text. Tables and diagrams.
Origin: Written in France in the last quarter of the 13th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. Brown calf (ca. 1700); gold-stamped with the arms of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758). Gilt stamped design on spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible—Commentaries
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Armorial bindings
illuminated manuscripts
historiated initials
decorated initials
Gold tooled bindings
diagrams
tables (documents)
Manicules

Physical Characteristics

File Count
816

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/74ebadaa-e4ef-447e-909e-c5da901358d2/manifest