(Q17261)
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28 November 2023
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Bible : Old and New Testament : in Latin].
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Bible.
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Cuthbert, John M
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1250
13. century
1250Gregorian
1250Gregorian
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Extent: 438 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 167 x 130 (117 x 109) mm bound to 18 cm
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Ms. codex.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ... edisserunt aliit ...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (paper) + 438 + iii (paper) ; 1-212 3-616 718 8-916 1014 11-1216 1318 14-1916 2020 2116 2218 23-2516 2624 2722−8 (lacking eight leaves at end) ; catchwords in lower right corner final verso of each quire, set off by red paragraph mark. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
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Layout: 2 columns, 52 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
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Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics (ten lines measure 23 mm)
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Decoration: Chapter numbers in epigraphic capitals alternating red and blue letters. Full-length "I" in outer margin of fol. 3v in seven compartments for the Seven Days of Creation, in colors; prologues and capitulae begin with 6-line puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue filigree; 4-line initial on fol. 1r, a monk reading, in colors with bar down outer margin; books begin with 3...
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Binding: 17th-century calf over pasteboard, rebacked with original leather laid-on. Edges red, spine in compartments, gilt black leather label reads "BIBLIA LATINA/ MS SAEC XIII"
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Origin: Written in France (possibly Paris) in the mid-thirteenth century; the Prologues are the standard Parisian group.
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Provenance: 17th-century inscription, "Lamentable complayning," fol. 280v. Signature of Robert Tomlinson, Christ College (Edinburgh?) on front flyleaf, partially illegible. Bookplate of "John M. Cuthbert, Bedford" on front flyleaf.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Pierce in 1901, (BPL bookplate inside front cover, embossed stamp on fol. 1, conservation department stamps on inner back cover dated 4/24/1930).
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Call number: MS q Med.2.
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Former call number: MS G.402.12.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 57 (this description tipped onto front flyleaf).
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4 December 2023
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