Bible (DS9857) (Q43575)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620887, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862088, mssHM 62)
- Bible
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Bible (DS9857) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620887, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862088, mssHM 62) |
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Bible
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Canterbury/Rochester school
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Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, 1024?-1108
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Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609
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Wall, Herman van de, 1672-1733
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Bible--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
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Latin, the chanson de geste fragment in v. I is in French
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between 1050 and 1099
11. century
1050Gregorian
1099Gregorian
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Extent: volumes I, ff. 241; volumes II, ff. 262 : parchment ; 260 x 400 mm
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Title supplied from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Late caroline minuscule.
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Layout: vol. I: 1-88 98(+5, f. 69) 10-148 1510(through f. 123) 16-298 306(-6); vol. II: 1-68 78(+8, f. 57) 8-318 3210(-10) 334. In both volumes, 2 columns of 45-48 lines ruled in dry point with double bounding lines on all 4 sides and triple rules between the columns; occasionally the 3 top and bottom lines full across, or the first and the third lines from the top and from the bottom full...
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Span folios: Vol. I, ff. 1- 241v; Vol. II, ff. 1- 262v.
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Decoration: Some later sketches in lead in vol. I: f. lv, in the space reserved for the first word, "Desiderii," a seated figure, blessing; f. 105v, in the initial for Psalms, a man with one arm upraised; f. 111, in the initial for Ps. 51, a lion-like animal and in the initial for Ps. 52, foliage (?); f. 123, lower margin, a crude sketch of a knight on horseback; in vol. II: f. 6, lower...
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Other Decoration: Plain red initials, the smaller ones usually placed outside the written space, sometimes touched over in silver, now oxidized; occasionally with simple red flourishes (e.g. vol. I, f. 135v), or with some purple (e.g. vol. I, f. 161); a few initials filled in ochre, one blue initial. Vol. I, f. 68v and vol. II, ff. 259-262, red or green initials with small but competent leafy...
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Scribe's notes in lead in rubric space, ff. 194v-199v, "dimitte spacium" or "non scribe." Material added in several hands, s. XIIin-med, in the script of the Canterbury / Rochester school (see N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest, Oxford, 1960, pls. 12a, 12b, 29a): in vol. I, ff. 68v-70, a revised chapter list for Deuteronomy, for which the original list on...
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Assigned Date: s. XI2.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/5/2012.
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In both volumes, f. 1, thirteenth century ex libris of the Rochester cathedral priory attributing early ownership to Gundulf, bishop of Rochester, 1077-1108. Marginal note in lead, vol. II, f. 134, "Dominus Gilbertus episcopus scit bene cantare, deus eum litera dicat" may refer to Gilbert Glanville, bishop of Rochester, 1185-1214; other notes in the same hand, f. 192v. Listed, ca. 1130, in the...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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