Boston Public Library, MS pf Med.104

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3445

Shelfmark:

MS pf Med.104

Title:

Bible : Old and New Testament : in Latin].

Place:

Paris]

Paris TGN

Date:

between 1225 and 1250

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 4 v. : parchment, ill. ; 440 x 317 (320 x 207) mm

Former Owner(s):

Duprat, Antoine, 1463-1535

Antoine Duprat WIKIDATA

Coudray, Charles Lenormand du

Charles Lenormand du Coudray WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Beatty, Alfred Chester, Sir, 1875-1968

Alfred Chester Beatty WIKIDATA

Conde, José Antonio, 1765-1820

José Antonio Conde WIKIDATA

Château d'Anet

Château d'Anet WIKIDATA

Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

Bernard Quaritch Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: (vol. I) ... entiam autem non ...
Secundo folio: (vol. II) ... cerdotis dum conquerentur ...
Secundo folio: (vol. III) ... tuo erit et irrigatio ...
Secundo folio: (vol. IV) Audite verbum domini ...
Collation: Parchment, four codices; (vol. I) fol. ii + 125 + ii; (vol. II) fol. ii + 167 + ii; (vol. III) fol. ii + i + 133 + ii; (vol. IV) fol. ii + 169 + ii ; volumes too tightly bound to collate, following collations are based on those given in Millar's Chester Beatty catalog: (vol. I) 1-1012 116−1 (final folio used at the beginning of Volume II); (vol. II) 11 (continued)1 12-138 14-1712...
Layout: Two columns, 43 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, vertical bounding lines doubled.
Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. Three-line penwork initials throughout in blue or red with red and blue filigree into margins.
Decoration: 64 six-line initials in colors on gold with floriate infill and gold-fillet frames (at the beginning of each prologue); 82 historiated initials, mostly six-line (at the beginning of each book; consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for full listing). On the opening folio of vol. I and vol. III, a late 15th-century gilt architectural border and, in the lower margin, the arms of the...
Binding: 18th-century goatskin over boards, gilt-tooled cornerstamp monograms (unidentified), filigree turn-ins and board edges, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with the same gilt monogram in each, gilt-stamped brown leather labels on spine reading "BIBLIA SACRA" and "TOM I" (II, III, IV), all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves in front and back, upper edge slightly...
Origin: Written in Paris in the second quarter of the 13th century. Branner, in Manuscript Painting in Paris, attributes this manuscript to the "middle period" of the eponymous du Prat atelier (Branner, p. 78-80 and 218)
Provenance: According to Peter Kidd, "the unidentified words and paraphs on the first pages of the original two volumes (now vols.I and III) show that this comes from the library at the Chateau d'Anet, which was sold in 1724 after the death of Anne of Bavaria. (The characteristic marks consist of a number followed by a paraph, the former sometimes written in words in French, sometimes in...
Provenance 2: The manuscript was divided into four volumes when bound in the current 18th-century boards, with unidentified gilt monogram stamps in the corners and spine compartments of the bindings. In the Sotheby's sale of 7 June 1932, these are tentatively identified as the monogram of Joseph Bonnier, Baron de la Mosson (1702-44), although comparison of the stamps to the Bonnier monogram...
Provenance 3: Later owned by José Antonio Conde y García (1766-1820), Librarian of the Royal Library, Madrid: the Bible was lot 970 in his sale by [Robert Harding] Evans, Catalogue of Rare, Curious, and Interesting Spanish Books, and a Few Miscellaneous Articles, Forming the Library of Don. J. Antonio Conde ... Which will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Evans ... July 6, and Four Following Days...
Provenance 4: Sold by Thorpe in 1830 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 4259) (SDBM 194757), his ex libris on the verso of the first flyleaf of each volume. Purchased from the Phillipps estate in 1920 by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, his number 54 (written on verso of each front flyleaf) (Millar II:48-53) and his sale at Sotheby's, 7 June 1932, lot 13 (SDBM 5517) to Quaritch. Offered by Quaritch three...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL in 1946 from Quaritch.
Call number: MS pf Med.104.
Former call number: MS 1532.
Bibliography: Lugt, F. Les Marques de Collection de Dessins & d'Estampes (Amsterdam, 1921); Millar, E.G. The library of A. Chester Beatty: a descriptive catalogue of the western manuscripts (Oxford, 1927-30), II:48-53; Haraszti, Zoltán. "Early Bibles and Liturgical Books." More Books/BPL quarterly XXIII (1948), p. 252; The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Inscriptions

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444781

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8910kn919/manifest

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8910kr58w/manifest

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8910kw09s/manifest

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8910kz940/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library