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Uniform Title:
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Bible. O.T. Minor Prophets Latin. Free Library of Philadelphia. Manuscript. Lewis E 243
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Title:
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[Bible, Minor Prophets, glossed]
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Publication Information:
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[France, 13th century].
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Physical Description:
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95 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 330 x 225 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: ff. iii (ff.i-ii, paper; f.iii parchment leaf tipped into first quire) + 90 + ii (paper); textblock: 204 x 140 mm.; prickings visible in inner and lower margins.
Layout: Written in 3 columns of 54 of lines, ruled in lead.
Script: Part I written in gothic bookhand (textualis and libraria); Part II written in gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 12 historiated initials, 2 approximately 12-line decorated initials, 1 5-line decorated initial*, alternating red and blue flourished 2-line initials throughout; alternating red and blue paragraph markers, some flourished, throughout.
Binding: Early 18th-century mottled leather, gilt-stamped spine, labeled IN XI[I] Proph. mino[r].
Origin: Part I produced in Paris, ca. 1220-1230. Part II from a northern French or German missal from the late 13th century.
Sold by H.P. Kraus to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1969.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis E 243.
Engraved bookplate (not labeled) inside front cover of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earls of Crawford. Erased inscription in 19th-century cursive hand on verso of first fly-leaf. "Kraus 69 Nexx Gratz", "European Mss. 45/46" and the numbers 6493 and 69-1003 inscribed on inside of back cover.
Loose hinges on spine, leather deteriorating along spine. Many of the lower edges of the pages have been repaired with newer parchment.
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Contents:
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I. ff.1r-90v: Minor Prophets, glossed. Incipit: Non idem ordo est duodecim P[ro]ph[e]tarum apud Hebraeos, qui et apud nos; Explicit: Ecce ego mittam vo[bis Eliam, prophetam ...]. Text ends at Malachi 4:5; manuscript lacks at least one page, and final gathering comprises only 3 leaves. II. f. iii: Fragment from a missal used as flyleaf (tipped into first quire) containing readings for the Fourth Sunday after Easter followed by the Epistle and Gospel readings for Wednesday after the Fourth Sunday.
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Summary:
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The Minor Prophets of the Old Testament in standard order, with glosses; tipped into first quire is a page from a French or German missal.
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Title Subject:
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Bible. O.T. Minor Prophets. 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 France.
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Added Author:
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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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