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<mods:namePart>Chevalier, Nicholas</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Morris, William</mods:namePart>
<mods:namePart type='date'>1834-1896</mods:namePart>
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<mods:extent>451 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 318 x 230 (215 x 155) mm.</mods:extent>
<mods:note>Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) + 451 ; 1-15⁸, 16⁶, 17-34⁸, 35-36⁶, 37-43⁸, 44⁸+¹ (fol. “346” tipped in singleton, currently loose and laid in, final canon table leaf), 45-54⁸, 55⁶, 56-58⁸ ; catchwords preserved, lower center margin of the final verso of each quire ; original foliation of roman numerals in lower margin of each recto, skips 330-339 and thus reaches 426 instead of 416 at the end of the Biblical text. The index has no original foliation.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Layout: Two columns, 56 lines, bounding and writing lines in light plummet.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Script: Written in a gothic bookhand, with some cursive features in brown ink with red rubrics. Chapter numbers alternate red and blue epigraphic capitals.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Decoration 1: f. 1r: 25-line historiated initial (the [F] of "Frater"), Jerome (nimbed) seated at a writing desk, in gold and colors with diapered blue background and a dragon in the stem of the letter; f. 4v: 22-line historiated [I] of "In principio," with the days of creation in round medallions arranged in two parallel registers (days 1-4 at left, 5-6 at right), with three rectangular panels extending from the fourth day to the right along the lower margin (Christ in Majesty; Bishop kneeling in prayer; two monks kneeling in prayer), in gold and colors, hunting scene above of a man shooting an arrow at a stork holding a gold ball in its mouth and standing on a long stem from which hangs an unidentified coat of arms (or three roses argent); 5-to-12 line evangelist portraits with attributes in gold and colors on f. "349" (Matthew), "359v" (Mark), "366" (Luke), "376" (John); Canon tables on ff. 329v-"346v:", two to four columns, lines alternating blue and red, in decorative interlaced red, green and blue frame.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Decoration 2: two-line historiated initials throughout alternating red with blue or blue with red filigree; psalm verse initials mid-line alternate red and blue; 10- to 20-line initials throughout in red and blue with elaborate red and blue filigree infill also extending into margins.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Binding: Ca. 19th-century brown morocco, with "Biblia Sacra/Latine/Manuscriptum/Saeculi XIII" stamped on the spine. Conservation rebinding performed in 2015.</mods:note>
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<mods:tableOfContents>1. ff. 1-329: Old Testament, begins with Jerome's Epistola 53 (Stegmuller 284): "Frater ambrosius tua. . ." -- 2. ff. 329v-"346v" (see pagination note below): Canon tables, that on f. 336v left blank. -- 3. ff. "347"-"348": chapter headings for Evangelists. -- 4. ff. "348"-"349": Evangelist prologue (Steg. 4779, Johannes Marchesinus, attributed to Jerome in manuscript). -- 5. ff. "349"-"359": Matthew. -- 6. ff. "359"-"365v": Mark (Steg. 607 and 611). -- 7. ff. "365v"-"376": Luke (Steg. 618 and 624). -- 8. ff. "376"-"383v": John (Steg. 624). -- 9. ff. "383v"-"388v": Romans (Steg. 651, 670, 674, 675). -- 10. ff. "388v"-"392": I Corinthians (Steg. 683). -- 11. ff. "392"-"394v": II Corinthians (Steg. 699). -- 12. ff. "394v"-"396": Galatians (Steg. 707). -- 13. ff. "396"-"397": Ephesians (Steg. 721). -- 14. ff. "397"-"398": Philippians (Steg. 728). -- 15. ff. "398"-"399": Colossians (Steg. 736). -- 16. ff. "399"-"400": I Thessalonians (Steg. 747). -- 17. ff. "400"-"400v": II Thessalonians (Steg. 753). -- 18. ff. "400v"-"401v": I Timothy (Steg. 765). -- 19. ff. "401v"-"402": II Timothy (Steg. 772). -- 20. ff. "402"-"402v": Titus (Steg. 780). -- 21. ff. "402v"-"403": Philemon (Steg. 783). -- 22. ff. "403"-"406": Hebrews (Steg. 793). -- 23. ff. "406"-"416v": Acts (Steg. 640). -- 24. ff. "416v"-"417v": Letter from Jacob to the Twelve Tribes (Steg. 809). -- 25. ff. "417v"-"419v": Epistle of Peter (no prologue). -- 26. ff. "419v"-"420v": Epistle of John (no prologue). -- 27. ff. "420v"-"421v": II Epistle of John (no prologue). -- 28. ff. "421"-"426": Apocalypse (Steg. 835). -- 29. ff. "426"-"453": Jerome's Index of the Bible.</mods:tableOfContents>
<mods:note>Ms. codex.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Secundo folio: intelligunt. Taceo …</mods:note>
<mods:note>Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 13th century.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Currently shelved under call no. MS f Med 1; formerly BPL G.401.11.</mods:note>
<mods:note type='acquisition'>Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by Sydney Cockerell for BPL in December 1900, accessioned 29 April 1901.</mods:note>
<mods:note type='ownership'>Provenance: Unidentified arms of early owner on f. 4v (or three roses argent); used from the 16th century on for birthnotes by one Durant family, living near Montargis (see inscriptions, partially effaced, final folio recto and verso); Nicolas Chevalier (1562-63), his arms were on the former old calf binding (see William Morris sales catalogue); William Morris, his sale (London 1898, n. 169; SDBM 39991) to Pickering (Pickering description inside front cover).</mods:note>
<mods:note type='language'>In Latin.</mods:note>
<mods:note type='citation/reference'>Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. I, page 917</mods:note>
<mods:note type='bibliography'>Bibliography: Haraszti, Z. "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928), 57; on Cockerell's acquisition of this manuscript for the Library, see Stoneman, W. "'Variously Employed': the Pre-Fitzwilliam Career of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell" in Art, Academia and the Trade: Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, XIII:4 (2007)), 354-5.</mods:note>
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