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Bible : Old and New Testament : in Latin].
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Bible.
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King, William, 1650-1729
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Manuscripts, Medieval--England
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Extent: 376 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 226 x 160 (150 x 45, 10, 43) mm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ... spiritualia regna descripsit ...
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Collation: Parchment, fol v (first two modern paper, followed by three early parchment leaves) + 376 + v (three parchment leaves, followed by two modern paper leaves) ; 1-1312 1410 158 16-1712 18-2112 2216 2312 2414 25-2912 3012+2 (fol. 361 and 362 are singletons) 3114 ; catchwords extant in lower margin of the final verso of some quires. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner each...
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Layout: 2 columns, 62 lines (index is 4 columns of 83 lines). Bounding and writing lines in black ink; bounding lines full-length, upper, lower and center writing lines full-length.
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Script: Written in a minute early gothic bookhand in black ink rubricated in red (chapter numbers in margin, epigraphic capitals alternating red and blue letters).
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Decoration: 8- to 12-line puzzle initials throughout in red and blue with red and blue penwork filigree into margins; "In principio" initial (fol. 3) full height of left margin and width of lower margin; Psalms and prologues begin with 3-line initials in blue with red or vice versa, marginal penwork extending full height of margin; those on fol. 289-301 (beginning of NT) later additions.
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Binding: Ca. 17th-century vellum over boards, blind-fillet covers, spine in compartments, old paper pastedowns and conjugates plus a free flyleaf, at front and back, followed by three parchment flyleaves.
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Origin: Written in England in the mid-thirteenth century. Light dates to Southern France, ca. 1225-1250.
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Provenance: Early notes on fol. 376v scraped away, not legible under ultraviolet light. Later owned by Archbishop William King of Derry (1650-1729), ex libris on fol. 1. Early/contemporary marginal annotations throughout.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1964.
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Call number: MS q med.202.
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Bibliography: Light, Laura. "The Thirteenth-Century Pandect and the Liturgy: Bibles with Missals." In "Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible," edited by Eyal Poleg and Laura Light, 185-215. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013.
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