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University College London

Bible (Latin)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 9

Held at: University College London

Title: Bible (Latin)

Date(s): 14th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 626 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Biblia Latina: fourteenth-century Latin Bible. An insert pasted inside (f 1*r), dated 1859, details the manuscript's later history.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin. Gothic minuscule hand.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Parchment manuscript in 19th-century binding of oak boards and red calf with brass clasps. One hand throughout. Probably written in Spain. The folios are numbered by a modern hand at the bottom of each one. The text has been written continuously in two columns. The heading of each folio is in red. Initial letters of words throughout the text are crossed through vertically in red. Small initials are alternately in red, flourished with blue, and vice versa. Sixty-nine larger initials (beginning text of Bible books and arguments) contain fine miniatures on a blue background. The top of each folio bears the name of the Bible book in alternate blue and red letters. Portions of several of the folios have been cut away, obviously bearing miniatures. 38cm.

Finding aids:

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

The original binding was removed when the manuscript was taken out of Spain many years before 1859. It belonged to a Spanish lawyer who, obliged to leave Spain owing to his political opinions, resided in England as a refugee for some years. The manuscript was rebound in England, c1856.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to University College London in 1859 by William Steere, barrister.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.