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Uniform Title:
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Bible. Latin. Free Library of Philadelphia. Manuscript. Lewis E 29
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Title:
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[De Brailes Bible].
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Publication Information:
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[Oxford, England, ca. 1230-1240]
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Physical Description:
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160 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 185 x 125 mm .
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (paper) + 156 + ii (paper) + 4 (detached leaves)
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 52 lines; ruled in brown ink; textblock: 118 x 80 mm.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand (textualis libraria)
Decoration: Decoration executed by artist William de Brailes. 45 small historiated and figured initials. 43 decorated initials. Flourished initials, running titles, and chapter numbers in red and blue ink throughout.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis E 29.
This bible is incomplete. Text begins with II Kings (II Samuel) and ends with Mark 7:33 (fol. 155v).
Several historiated and figured initials have been excised.
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Contents:
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1. fol. 1r-155v: "[text] Factum est autem postquam est mortuus Saul . . . differentes sive prophetiam . . ."
2. fol. 156: Added leaf from the same Bible containing Romans 8:11 to 12:6.
3. fol. 157-160: Four additional fragments from the same manuscript (kept separately and numbered with foliation continuing from codex) have the following texts: fol. 157 includes Mark 15:4 to the end and Luke 1:1-32; fol. 158 continues from last leaf in bound codex with Romans 12:6 to the end and I Corinthians 1:1-5; fol. 159 contains I Thessalonians 5, II Thessalonians, and I Timothy 1-3:9; and fol. 160 contains II Timothy 2:20, Titus, and Philemon 1:1-17.
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Title Subject:
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Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 13th century.
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Subject Term:
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Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic England.
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Added Author:
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William,
Lewis, John Frederick,
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Added Author:
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Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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Electronic Access:
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