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Bible : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-350; ff. 350v-358v blank. [Bible]. Latin. ff. 1-275, Old Testament; ff. 275v-276v, columns and arches as if for canon tables but without text; ff. 277-350, New Testament. Bible in the standard order; note, however: 3 Kings ending at 4 Kings 1, 18; Ps. 151 present; Ecclesiasticus followed by the prayer of Solomon; Daniel ending at 14, 41. There are 56 prologues: none in the Old Testament after the introduction to the Minor Prophets, and one for each of the Catholic Epistles.
Type
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Date
[between 1240 and 1260]
Call number
mssHM 1069
Provenance
On f. 3v, "Materiam superat opus excellens viviani/ Cuius facta probant mores in pectore sani." A 12-line erased inscription, s. XV(?), on f. 350v begins "Ista biblia est conventui Velletri..." In the W. F. Fowle sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 140 to Samuel Addington; his sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1886, lot 29 to B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 3 with a plate of f. 155v; Bierstadt (1895) pp. 11-12 ; Cat. (1909) pp. 6-7 ; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2116 to G. D. Smith.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
157 x 240 mm
Associated people
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, (1833-1902,)
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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