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Bible.

Accession number
MS M.464-465
Object title
Bible.
Display Date
1100-1125.
Created
Central Italy, 1100-1125.
Binding
Formerly in three volumes, bound in limp vellum; rebound into two volumes of 87 and 90 leaves by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1953.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1910 and 1911.
Description
2 v. (87, 90 leaves) (2 columns, 58 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 560 x 380 mm.
Provenance
One volume purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1910; two volumes purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. Bible; written and decorated in central Italy, first quarter of the 12th century.
Lacks Genesis to Psalms, Job to Malachi, and all after Galatians.
Decoration: 13 large decorated initials and on fol. 75r, in margin, arms in pen and ink: five fesses ... on a border of ..., eleven besants; another shield lightly sketched at the lower margin of fol. 77r (M.464); 4 decorated canon tables (fols. 2v, 3r, 3v, 4r) and 27 large decorated initials (M.465).
Before the 1953 rebinding, the three volumes may have been divided as follows: vol. 1, purchased in 1910 -- fol. 72r-87v of what is now M.464 and fol. 5r-42v of what is now M.465; vol. 2, purchased in 1911 -- fol. 1r-71v without the blank fol. of what is now M.464; vol. 3, purchased in 1911 -- fol. 1r-4v and 43r-90r of what is now M.465--Cf PML files.
Contents
M.464: fols. 1r-8v: Proverbs -- fols. 8v-11r: Ecclesiastes -- fols. 11r-12v: Song of Solomon -- fols. 12v-18v: Sapientae -- fols. 18v-32r: Ecclesiasticus -- fols. 32r-41r: I Paralip. -- fols. 41r-52v: II Paralip. -- fols. 52r-59v: Ezra -- fols. 59v-62v: Tobit -- fols. 62v-71v: Judith -- fols. 72r-81v: I Maccabees -- fols. 81v-87v: II Maccabees.
M.465: fols. 1r-2r: Prologue to the Gospels and chapter headings -- fols. 2v-4r: Canon tables -- fols. 5r-15v: Matthew -- fols. 15v-22v: Mark -- fols. 22v-34r: Luke -- fols. 34r-42v:John -- fols. 43r-54v: Acts -- fols. 54v-55v: Epistle of James -- fols. 55v-56v: I Peter -- fols. 56v-57v: II Peter -- fols. 57v-58v: I John -- fols. 58v-59r: II John -- fol. 59r: III John -- fols. 59r-60r: Jude -- fols. 60r-67r: Revelations -- fols. 67r-71v: Romans -- fols. 71v-76r: I Corinthians -- fols. 76r-78v: II Corinthians -- fols. 78v-80r: Galatians -- fols. 80r-81v: Ephesians -- fols. 81v-82v: Phillipians -- fols. 82v-83v: Colossians -- fols. 83v-84v: I Thessalonians -- fols. 84v-85r: II Thessalonians -- fols. 85r-86r: I Timothy -- fols. 86r-87r: II Timothy -- fols. 87r-87v: Titus -- fol. 87v: Philemon -- fols. 87v-90v: Hebrews -- pasted to the lower half of fol. 90v is a transcript of a contemporary document recounting events connected with the last visit of Pope Innocent III to Orvieto, Italy, in 1216.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification