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Bible (MS M.823).

Accession number
MS M.823
Object title
Bible (MS M.823).
Created
England, perhaps St. Albans, 1160-1180.
Binding
Previously in old calf; rebound in 1/2 niger by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1947.
Description
174 leaves (2 columns, 40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 432 x 330 mm
Provenance
Written and illuminated perhaps in the scriptorium of St. Albans; mutilated for its initials in the 15th century; used as a lectionary in Salisbury in the 15th century (contains instructions in the margins of fol. 7v); Thomas Pawle, a later 15th-century owner (name written on fol. 174v); old shelfmark D.IV written in red ink on grey paper pasted on back pastedown; owned in 1947 by R.J.A. Arundell, Esq., Wardour Castle, Tisbury; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Nov. 24, 1947, lot 63); purchased for the Morgan Library through Rosenbach in 1947.
Notes
Ms. bible; written and illuminated in England, perhaps in St. Albans, between 1160 and 1180.
In most cases, the first page of each book was cut out for the initial letter--Cf. PML files.
A sister book to the second Winchester Bible (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct.E. Infra 1 and 2)--Cf. Oakeshott.
Decoration: 5 large illuminated initials, with zoomorphic and figural motifs, 12 smaller illuminated initials.
Artist: Brilliant Pupil of the Master of the Entangled Figures.
Contents
fols. 1r-12r: Genesis, commencing with chapter XXX, 36 -- fols. 12r-12v: Chapter headings for Exodus -- fols. 33r-33v: Chapter headings for Leviticus -- fols 34r-47r: Leviticus, commencing with chapter I, 4 -- fols. 47r-66v: Numbers -- fols. 66v-67v: Chapter headings for Deuteronomy -- fols. 68v-86v: Deuteronomy, commencing with chapter I, line 28 -- fol. 86v: Jerome's preface to Joshua -- fols. 87r-98v: Joshua, commencing with chapter II, 2 -- fol. 98v: Headings for the first three chapters of Judges -- fols. 99r-111r: Judges, commencing with chapter II, 8 -- fols. 111r-112v: Ruth -- fol. 112v: Incipit of Jerome's preface to Kings -- fols. 113r-140r: Jeremiah, commencing with chapter II, 19 -- fols. 140r-142v: Threni, or the Lamentations of Jeremiah -- fol. 142v: Prologue to Ezechiel -- fol. 143r: II Machabees from chapter XV, 19 to the end -- fols. 143r-159v: Acts -- fols. 159v-160r: Preface and chapter headings of the Epistles -- fols. 160r-160v: James -- fols. 161v-164r: Peter I and II -- fols. 164r-166v: John I-III -- fols. 166r-166v: Jude -- fols. 166v-173r: Revelations.
Script
protogothic minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification