Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener 2

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DS ID:

DS6334

Shelfmark:

Widener 2

Title:

Bible du XIIIe siècle

Bible

Artist:

Workshop of the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen

Master of the Rouen Echevinage WIKIDATA

Place:

Rouen, France

Rouen TGN

France TGN

Date:

1465-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin

Middle French WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+383+ii; 453 x 315 mm bound to 475 x 330 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Royal family of Liechtenstein

House of Liechtenstein WIKIDATA

Thomas, George C. (George Clifford), 1839-1909

George C. Thomas WIKIDATA

Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early), 1872-1943

Joseph E. Widener WIKIDATA

Wichfield, Josephine Widener

Josephine Widener Wichfield WIKIDATA

Widener, Peter Arrell Brown, 1895-1948

Peter Arrell Brown Widener II WIKIDATA

Note:

Each Psalm of the French translation is preceded by the first verse of the Psalm in Latin. Latin inscriptions also appear on some miniatures.
Paper flyleaves
Some water stains on fols. 30-41; red ink stains on fol. 283v from miniature on facing page
Binding: Early eighteenth-century French, gilt-tooled red morocco with gilt tooling on spine, gilt edges, marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, by Jacques-Antoine Derome (1696-1760)
Layout: Two columns of fifty-two lines; frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 295 x 197 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Two half-page miniatures with full borders (the first border inhabited) at the Old and New Testament divisions (fols. 1r, 312r); thirty-one arched column miniatures with foliate (rinceaux-type) borders framing the text column at book divisions and sections of Psalms (fols. 51r, 68r, 79v, 98v, 115v, 127r, 139r, 141r, 157r, 170r, 185r, 199v, 212v, 229v, 234v, 242r, 249v, 254r, 260v...
Related resource: Lacrois, Paul, Sciences et lettres au Moyen Âge et l'époque de la Renaissance (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1877), p. 361, fig. 280 (reproduces fol. 290; incorrectly listed as fig. 80 in De Ricci).
Related resource: Thomas, George Clifford, Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas, comp. A.H.R. (Philadelphia, 1907), p. 3.
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2115, no. 2.
Related resource: Berkowitz, David Sandler, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible (Waltham, Massachusetts: The Brandeis University Press, 1968), pp. 47-48, no. 81 (reproduces fol. 1).
Related resource: Sneddon, Clive R., "A Critical Edition of the Four Gospels in the Thirteenth Century Old French Translation of the Bible" (Ph.D. diss., University of Oxford, 1979).
Related resource: Sneddon, Clive R., "The 'Bible du XIIIe siècle': Its Medieval Public in Light of Its Manuscript Tradition," in The Bible and Medieval Culture, ed. W. Lourdaux and D. Verhelst, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. 1, no. 7 (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1979), p. 133, note 20, p. 139, note 39.
Related resource: Quereuil, Michael, ed., La Bible française du XIIIe siècle: Édition critique de la Genèse (Geneva: Droz, 1988), p. 37.
Related resource: Bogaert, Pierre-Maurice, review of La Bible française du XIIIe siècle, by Michael Quereuil, in Scriptorium, vol. 44, no. 1 (1990), pp. 76-77.
Related resource: Tanis, James R., ed., Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 40-43, no. 7.
Related resource: Sneddon, Clive R., "The Old French Bible," in The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity, eds. Susan Boynton and Diane J. Reilly (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), p. 310, note 27 (chapter pp. 296-312).
Provenance: Ambroise Firmin-Didot (bookseller), Paris; sale, l'Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, May 26-31, 1879, no. 3; Fontaine (dealer?), 1879; library of Prince Liechtenstein; placed by Édouard Rahir (Paris bookseller) in a sale at Sotheby's, London, June 20, 1092, lot 32; Bernard Quaritch (bookseller), London, 1902; George C. Thomas, Philadelphia, before 1907; A.S.W. Rosenbach...

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

Bible

French (culture or style)

France

binding (textile material)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/widener_002.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/widener_002/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia