Bible du XIIIe siècle (DS6334) (Q26502)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Widener 2, Widener 2)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Bible du XIIIe siècle (DS6334) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Widener 2, Widener 2) |
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Workshop of the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen
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Royal family of Liechtenstein
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Thomas, George C. (George Clifford), 1839-1909
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Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early), 1872-1943
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Wichfield, Josephine Widener
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Widener, Peter Arrell Brown, 1895-1948
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1465-1475
15. century
1465Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: ii+383+ii; 453 x 315 mm bound to 475 x 330 mm; parchment
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Each Psalm of the French translation is preceded by the first verse of the Psalm in Latin. Latin inscriptions also appear on some miniatures.
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Paper flyleaves
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Some water stains on fols. 30-41; red ink stains on fol. 283v from miniature on facing page
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Binding: Early eighteenth-century French, gilt-tooled red morocco with gilt tooling on spine, gilt edges, marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, by Jacques-Antoine Derome (1696-1760)
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Layout: Two columns of fifty-two lines; frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 295 x 197 mm
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Script: Bâtarde
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Decoration: Two half-page miniatures with full borders (the first border inhabited) at the Old and New Testament divisions (fols. 1r, 312r); thirty-one arched column miniatures with foliate (rinceaux-type) borders framing the text column at book divisions and sections of Psalms (fols. 51r, 68r, 79v, 98v, 115v, 127r, 139r, 141r, 157r, 170r, 185r, 199v, 212v, 229v, 234v, 242r, 249v, 254r, 260v...
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Related resource: Lacrois, Paul, Sciences et lettres au Moyen Âge et l'époque de la Renaissance (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1877), p. 361, fig. 280 (reproduces fol. 290; incorrectly listed as fig. 80 in De Ricci).
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Related resource: Thomas, George Clifford, Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas, comp. A.H.R. (Philadelphia, 1907), p. 3.
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2115, no. 2.
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Related resource: Berkowitz, David Sandler, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (Waltham, Massachusetts: The Brandeis University Press, 1968), pp. 47-48, no. 81 (reproduces fol. 1).
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Related resource: Sneddon, Clive R., "A Critical Edition of the Four Gospels in the Thirteenth Century Old French Translation of the Bible" (Ph.D. diss., University of Oxford, 1979).
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Related resource: Sneddon, Clive R., "The 'Bible du XIIIe siècle': Its Medieval Public in Light of Its Manuscript Tradition," in The Bible and Medieval Culture, ed. W. Lourdaux and D. Verhelst, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. 1, no. 7 (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1979), p. 133, note 20, p. 139, note 39.
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Related resource: Quereuil, Michael, ed., La Bible française du XIIIe siècle: Édition critique de la Genèse (Geneva: Droz, 1988), p. 37.
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Related resource: Bogaert, Pierre-Maurice, review of La Bible française du XIIIe siècle, by Michael Quereuil, in Scriptorium, vol. 44, no. 1 (1990), pp. 76-77.
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Related resource: Tanis, James R., ed., Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 40-43, no. 7.
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Related resource: Sneddon, Clive R., "The Old French Bible," in The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity, eds. Susan Boynton and Diane J. Reilly (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), p. 310, note 27 (chapter pp. 296-312).
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Provenance: Ambroise Firmin-Didot (bookseller), Paris; sale, l'Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, May 26-31, 1879, no. 3; Fontaine (dealer?), 1879; library of Prince Liechtenstein; placed by Édouard Rahir (Paris bookseller) in a sale at Sotheby's, London, June 20, 1092, lot 32; Bernard Quaritch (bookseller), London, 1902; George C. Thomas, Philadelphia, before 1907; A.S.W. Rosenbach...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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5 December 2023
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5 December 2023
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