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  • Language: Latin. Incipit: Frater Ambrosius tua michi munuscula preferens detulit. Explicit: amen veni domine ihesu gratiam domini nostri ihesu christi cum omnibus nobis . amen. Folio range: 1r-597v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Interpretation of Hebrew Names. Author: Langton, Stephen, -1228. Incipit: Aaz apprehendens vel apprehensio . ad testificans uter testemonium. Explicit: Zoeleth tractus. Folio range: 598r-643v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Sermon notes. Scribal title: Dominica prima in adventu domini. Incipit: Epistula [ad] Romanos . xiii . scientes et cetera. Explicit: evangelium lucam . x. ecce ego mitto vos. Folio range: 644r-646v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Ending, Interpretation of Hebrew Names. Author: Langton, Stephen, -1228. Incipit: vel proferens seu tractum aut protraccio. Explicit: Zuzim consiliantes eos vel consiliatores eorum. Folio range: 647r ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Continued sermon notes. Incipit: xiii . capitulum . actus apostolorum . paulus et barnabas. Explicit: et quia nemo accusavit eum liberatus est. Folio range: 647r-v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Calendar. Folio range: 648r-649v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: List of contents. Folio range: 650r
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Time Period
  • Second quarter of the 13th century
Place of Origin
  • France
Description
  • Portable Bible with prologues ascribed to Saint Jerome produced in northern France during the second quarter of the thirteenth century. At the end of the volume, the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (version beginning "Aaz apprehendens," ascribed to Stephen Langton), sermon notes, a Calendar, and a list of contents (in a later hand) are included. The calendar includes a feast day (March 1) for Saint Siviardi, abbot at Saint-Calais located in the Pays de la Loire region, suggesting that this volume was produced for an audience also situated in northern France. A note in the lower margin of fol. 643v clarifies that the ending of the Interpretation can be found after a gap of three folios (on fol. 647r). Marginalia found throughout in multiple hands, with a fifteenth century hand adding Deuteronomy 32:1-43 to fols. 478r-479r.
Call Number
  • BS 70 .B5 1300
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • xau_008_001
Keywords
  • Marginalia
  • Scripture
  • Bible
  • France
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Puzzle initial
  • Illumination
  • Christian
  • Manicules
  • Historiated initial
  • Inhabited initial
Title
  • Bible
Author
  • Langton, Stephen, -1228
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Codex. Support material: Parchment. Extent: ii + 651 + ii. Collation: Collation undetermined. Foliation - Pagination: None. Bound dimensions (in mm): 137 x 101 x 69. Page dimensions (in mm): 127 x 92. Written area (in mm): 93 x 60. Script: Gothic. Script type: Textualis. Layout: Two columns, ruled in lead for forty-seven or forty-eight lines. Double horizontal bounding lines in the upper margin, double vertical bounding lines around the textblock, and triple bounding lines between the two columns. Prickings visible in some outer margins (see fols. 290 and 291, for example).. Decoration: Thirteen-line historiated initial in blue, orange, green, light red, gray, and white extends down the inner margin of fol. 1r and culminates in an eight-line inhabited decorative figure. Partial historiated bar border in blue, red, gray, brown, orange, and white on fol. 5r displays seven scenes illustrating the days of creation and Christ’s crucifixion. Additional inhabited (or decorated) initials, between seven and ten lines, in red, blue, gray, orange and white introduce new books and are found on fols. 28v, 48r, 62r (decorated), 81v, 99r (decorated), 111r, 123v, 127r, 144r, 157v (decorated), 173v, 189r, 363v, 390r, 392v, 395v, 420r, 429v, 433r, 434v, 437v, 438v (decorated), 439v (decorated), 441v, 443v, 444v, 446r (decorated), 447r (decorated), 451v, 453r, 468r, 481v, 497r, 507r, 523v, 552v, 554v, 556v, 558r, 559r, 560v, 561r, 563r, 564r, 564v, 565r (decorated), 569r, 584r, 585v, 586v (decorated), 587v, 589v (decorated), 590r. Four- to nine-line puzzle initials in red and blue with red and green flourishing on fols. 4r, 98v, 125v, 126v, 188v, 240r, 258r, 315v, 322r, 363v, 392v, 395v, 419r, 429r, 432v, 433r, 434r, 438r, 438v, 439r, 441v, 442v, 444v, 445v, 447r, 451r, 481r, 497r, 506v, 523r, 583v. Four- to twelve-line puzzle initials in red and blue display an alternate decorative scheme and are framed and decorated with yellow, green, light red, red, and blue on 202v, 220v, 225r, 232r, 240r, 245r, 251v, 252r, 259r, 270v, 275r, 278r, 280v, 283v, 287r, 290r, 293v, 301r, 310v, 313v, 315v, 322v, 341r. Alternating red and blue initials, between two and six lines, with green and red flourishing introduce new chapters. Running heads and chapter numbers in blue and red. Capitals heightened in red. Rubrication.. Binding: Blind stamped brown calf leather over wooden boards, with two brass clasps.
Language
  • Latin
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • xau_008_001
Date Created
  • 13th century
Owning Institution
  • Xavier University Library University Archives and Special Collections. Cincinnati, OH.
Provenance
  • Bookplate for Robert R. Dearden, Jr. (d. 1938) attached to the inside cover. Signature of Jacobus Urbanus (Jacob Urban) on the back of the second flyleaf. The front of the second flyleaf once included another name that has been crossed out with ink, making that name unreadable. Note from Robert Dearden, Jr. states “The manuscript was purchased by me from a dealer in Germany shortly after the World War and was formerly in one of the libraries of that county.” Charles Williams purchased the bible from Robert Dearden, Jr. Donated to Xavier University by Mrs. Lawrence H. Kyte (Mary Elizabeth Williams Kyte) in 1964.

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