Stowe MS 1

THE BIBLE, in Latin: Vulgate version. Preceded by the Epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, "Frater Ambrosius "), and by his preface to the Pentateuch (f. 3). All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces prefixed, except Judges, Ruth, Psalms, and Song of Songs, while Job, Joel, Jonah, Matthew, and Luke have two prefaces (in the case of Luke one is the author's own preface, which precedes the other), and Amos and Maccabees three. The arrangement of books is regular, except that the Prayer of Manasses is attached to II. Chronicles, without break or division; and Ezra and Nehemiah are joined as the list book of Esdras, while the lst (apocryphal) Esdras stands as the 2nd. In the New Testament the Acts of the Apostles stands between the Pauline and Catholic Epistles. At the end (f. 426) is a table of Hebrew names with their meanings, sc. Bede's Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum (Beda, Opera, ed. 1688, vol. iii. pp. 371-480), and some explanatory notes on each book (arranged in a different order), entitled " glose divinorum librorum " (f. 466). The text in the Gospels in many cases agrees with the readings of the Correctorium Vaticanum [Vercellone N, Wordsworth cor. vat.], which is of the 13th cent. Vellum; ff. 478. In double columns of 54 lines. XIIIth cent., probably written in France. The initial letter of each book is ornamented with a small, but finely executed, miniature, and larger initials extending the full height of the text are on ff. 1, 3b, 342b; initials of chapters are in red and blue. On the last leaf is written a bequest of the volume by John Chevrot de Polignac, Bishop of Tournay [1437-1460], to his godson John, son of Peter Falquerius, dated 1458, and attested by the signature " De Butoville." Below is the signature " Le Gouz," as subsequent owner, and on f. 1 is the inscription " dono et liberalitate DD. Le Goux (sic), fratrum, haeredum Domini de Vallepelle Patris, in supremo Burgundiae senatu Advocati Generalis [Guillaume Le Gouz, Seigneur of Vellepesle and Gurgy, near Auxerre, appointed Advocate General to the Parlement of Burgundy in 1586, cf. Palliot, Parlement de Bourgogne, p. 340], anno 1615, 1 octob." Small Folio.

Bible LATIN: Bible: 13th cent.

Beda: Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum: 13th cent.

Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Bible: miniatures and initials: 13th cent.