Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902, former owner Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1069
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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. Support: Parchment. Script: Gothic. Layout: 1-26¹⁰ 27-28⁸(through f. 276) 29-35¹⁰ 36⁸(-4, 6, 7, 8; plus one leaf each attached to stubs of 6 and 8; text is complete) 37-39⁶(these 6 leaves blank). Catchwords in the center of the lower margin or the inside lower margin, trimmed except on quires 25-26 and 33-35. 2 columns of 60 lines ruled in lead with single bounding lines at the sides, triple bounding lines between the columns, and a narrow double rule across the upper margin for running headlines; slash prick marks in the 3 outer margins. The scribe or artist Vivianus (Sanus?) of Cremona wrote his name and home town in gold letters in the margins next to the illuminations on ff. 1 and 3v. Decoration: Eighty-six historiated or ornamented initials, 17- to 5-line, usually in shaded blue, green, orange or beige, infilled with historiation or stylized vegetation in the same colors, the whole set against stippled gold grounds, outlined in shaded green, sometimes with the letter itself or its extension formed of a biting animal. Other Decoration: Initials for the prologues usually as a gold letter on a white-patterned blue and beige ground, 11- to 5-line. In Job, Psalms and Ecclesiastes (ff. 148-197v) and in the New Testament (ff. 277-350), 2-line initials alternating gold with blue flourishing and blue with red, and 1-line initials alternating blue and gold, except in Psalms, which alternates 1-line initials in blue and silver. Very elaborate penwork flourishes off the paragraph marks set in the margins to indicate chapter divisions, sometimes as animals spewing forth multicolored flourishes from their mouths, e.g. ff. 333, 344v, 348v. Assigned Date: s. XIIImed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/6/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XVII-XVIII?, in beige doe skin over cardboard; gauffered gilt edges. HM 1069. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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.
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