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ff. 1-378; f. 378v blank. Latin. ff. i-xii verso, Order of the Mass and lists of introits and readings for masses of the temporale, sanctorale and votive masses, followed by a table for moveable feasts and a list of the books of this bible with reference to folio numbers; ff. 1-259, Old Testament; ff. 261-318v, New Testament; ff. 319-366v, Interpretations of Hebrew Names; ff. 367-373, 3 Ezra; ff. 373v-376, additional prologues and chapter list of Apocalypse; ff. 376v-378, prayer of Manasses and additional prologues. Bible in unusual order, with 79 prologues copied in the sequence of the text and 18 added at the end: additions in other hands including readings for mass; the Psalms copied in parallel columns for the Gallican and Hebrew psalters, ending with Ps. 151.
Type
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Date
[between 1200 and 1250]
Call number
mssHM 51
Provenance
Written in England (?) during the first half of the thirteenth century. Rubrics for the readings at mass ("ad usum morinensem," "secundum usum morinensis diocesis"), as well as the saints occurring on ff. i-xii verso show that at least by the time of this addition, s. XIV, the book was being used in the diocese of Thérouanne in northern France. Belonged to the Minneapolis bookseller and collector, Edmund D. Brooks; sale by Anderson, New York, 13 November 1913, n. 375 to Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928), also of Minneapolis; his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 January 1919, pt. II, n. 1070A to G. D. Smith.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
173 x 242 mm
Associated people
Brooks, Edmund D. (1866-1919,)
Jones, Herschel V. (1861-1928,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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