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Kings MS 2

Record Id:
040-002016917
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002016915
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001207.0x0002cc
LARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100165170498.0x000001
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 2
Title:
Bible (imperfect, with Joshua 13-Hebrews 6 only)
Scope & Content:

This manuscript is an imperfect 13th-century Bible of the Vulgate text, beginning with Joshua 13 and ending in Hebrews 6. The manuscript is wanting many leaves at the beginning and end, and after f. 148 (Psalms 117:121-Wisdom 12: 25), as well as five after f. 334 (Galatians 3:19-1 Thessalonians 1:8), two after f. 336 (1 Timothy 6: 16-Hebrews 1: 4), and single leaves after ff. 4, 7, 30, 93, 106, 209, 231, 252, 312, 329, 330, and 335.

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Joshua;

ff. 5r-14r: Judges;

ff. 14r-15v: Ruth;

ff. 15v-16v: Prologue to 1 Kings;

ff. 16v-30v: 1 Kings;

ff. 31r-41v: 2 Kings;

ff. 41v-55r: 3 Kings;

ff. 55r-67v: 4 Kings;

ff. 67v-68r: Prologue to 1 Paralipomenon;

ff. 68r-79v: 1 Paralipomenon;

ff. 80r-93v: 2 Paralipomenon;

ff. 94r-97v: 1 Esdras;

ff. 97v-103v: 2 Esdras or Nehemias;

f. 103v: Prologue to Tobias;

ff. 103v-106v: Tobias;

ff. 107r-111v: Judith;

ff. 111v-116v: Ester;

ff. 116v-117r: Prologue to Job;

ff. 117r-128r: Job;

ff. 128r-148v: Psalms (in the Gallican Version);

ff. 149r-151v: Wisdom;

ff. 151v-167v: Ecclesiastes;

ff. 167v-168r: Prayer of Solomon;

f. 168r: Prologue to Isaiah;

ff. 168r-187r: Isaiah;

f. 187r: Prologue to Jeremiah;

ff. 187r-208v: Jeremiah;

ff. 208v-209v: Lamentations;

ff. 210r-211r: Baruch;

f. 212r: Prologue to Ezechiel;

ff. 212r-231v: Ezechiel;

ff. 232r-239v: Daniel;

ff. 239v-240r: Prologue to Hosea;

ff. 240r-242v: Hosea;

f. 242r: Prologue to Joel;

ff. 242r-243v: Joel;

f. 244r: Prologue to Amos;

ff. 244r-246r: Amos;

ff. 246r-246v: Prologue to Obadiah;

f. 246v: Obadiah;

ff. 246v-247r: Prologue to Jonah;

ff. 247r-247v: Jonah;

f. 247v: Prologue to Micah;

ff. 247v-249r: Micah;

ff. 249r-v: Prologue to Nahum;

ff. 249v-250r: Nahum;

ff. 250r-251r: Prologue to Habbaduk;

ff. 251r-v: Habbaduk;

ff. 251v-252r: Prologue to Zephaniah;

ff. 252r-v: Zephaniah;

ff. 252v-253r: Prologue to Zechariah;

ff. 253r-256r: Zechariah;

ff. 256r-v: Prologue to Malachi;

ff. 256v-257v: Malachi;

f. 257r: Prologue to Maccabees;

ff. 257r-270r: 1 Maccabees;

ff. 270r-279r: 2 Maccabees;

ff. 279r-v: Prologue to Matthew;

ff. 279v-291v: Matthew;

ff. 291v-292r: Prologue to Mark;

ff. 292r-299v: Mark;

ff. 299v-300r: Prologue to Luke;

ff. 300r-312v: Luke;

ff. 313r-322v: John;

f. 322v: Prologue to Romans;

ff. 322v-327v: Romans;

f. 327v: Prologue to 1 Corinthians;

ff. 372v-330v: 1 Corinthians;

ff. 331r-334r: 2 Corinthians;

f. 334r: Prologue to Galatians;

ff. 334r-v: Galatians;

ff. 335r-v: 1 Thessalonians;

ff. 336r-v: 1 Timothy;

ff. 337r-v: Hebrews.

Decoration:

Large decorated foliate initials, in colours, at major divisions. Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running titles in red and blue.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
King's Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002016915
040-002016917
Is part of:
Kings MS 1-446 : King's Manuscripts

 

Kings MS 2 : Bible (imperfect, with Joshua 13-Hebrews 6 only)
Hierarchy:
032-002016915[0002]/040-002016917
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Kings MS 1-446
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:
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Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1250
End Date:
1274
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 145 x 100 mm (text space: 100 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. 337 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); foliation in Arabic numerals in the lower margin of ff. 197-198, partially cropped; 1 unfoliated parchment fragment before f. 1 and after f. 334; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between: f. 4 and f. 5, f. 312 and f. 313, f. 336 and f. 337, and f. 334 and f. 335.

Script: Gothic, written below the top line.

Binding: Post-1600. Blue leather, gold-tooled with the monogram of George III; painted edges; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

William Thewes, 17th century: inscribed 'Willia[m] Thewe[s] booke' (f. 152r).

An erased ownership inscription (f. 127r).

King George III (b. 1738, d. 1820): his stamp on upper and lower covers.

Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III (known as the 'King's Library').

Publications:
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), III: Description of the King’s Manuscripts and Indexes to both Collections, p. 1.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
France
Related Material:

From George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), III: Description of the King’s Manuscripts and Indexes to both Collections, p. 1:

BIBLE, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version. Imperfect, wanting many leaves at the beginning and end and after f. 148 (Ps. cxviii. 121-Sap. xii. 25), five after f. 334 (Gal. iii. 19-1 Thess. i. 8), two after f. 336 (1 Tim. vi. 16- Heb. i. 4), and single leaves after ff. 4, 7, 30, 93, 106, 209,231,252,312,329,330,and 335. The books which remain are in the usual order of the Vulgate, except that the Pauline Epistles come next after the Gospels. Gallican Psalter, entitled ' Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum prophete Dauid de Christo' (f. 128). At the end of Ecclesiasticus (f. 167 b) is the prayer of Solomon (cf. 3 Reg. viii. 22-31, 2 Chron. vi. 12-22), beg. 'Et inclinauit Salomon genua' and ending 'si peccauerit uir iuxta te', as in the Codex Amiatinus (Heyse and Tischendorf, Biblia Sacra Lat. Vet. Test., 1873, pp., xx, lv.)

Titles are prefixed to the books, together with Jerome' s prologues, with the following exceptions:-the second prologue to Chronicles ('Quomodo Graecorum') is omitted; the second prologue to Job ('Si aut fiscellam') is replaced by the argument beg. 'In terra quidem' (f. 117, Berger, Prefaces, 1902, no. 58); the prologue to the Psalms by that of Petrus Lombardus, beg. 'Cum omnes prophetas' (f. 127 b, Migne, Patr. Lat. cxci. 55); and the general prologues to the Gospels and the Pauline Epistles are omitted.

There are also the following additions: at the end of Job, a paragraph headed Ieronimus in 7 capitulo magni prologi super Iob' and beg. 'lob quoque exemplar pacientie' (f. 127b, Berger, no. 57); prologue to Hosea, beg. ' Temporibus Ioathan, Achaz, et Ezechie' (f. 239 b, Berger 174); Joel, beg. ' Iohel filius Fatuel', with additional passages beg. 'Extribus igitur generibus ' and ' Iohel qui interpretatur' (f. 242 b, Berger 179, 183, 182); Amos, two prologues, beg. 'Ozias rex' and 'Amos pastor et rusticus' (f. 244, Berger 184, 185); Obadiah, two prologues, beg. ' Iacob patriarcha' and 'Abdias qui interpretatur' (f. 246); Jonah, two prologues, beg. 'Ionam sanctum Hebrei and 'Ionas columba' (f. 246 b); Micah, two prologues, beg. 'Temporibus Ioathan' and '[M]icheas de Morasthin' (f. 247b); Nahum, two prologues, beg. 'Naum prophetam and 'Naum consolator (f.249); Habakkuk, three prologues, beg. 'Quatuor prophete', 'Abacuc amplexans', and 'Abacuc luctator' (f. 250); Zephaniah, three prologues, beg. 'Tradunt Hebrei', 'Iosiam regem', and 'Sophonias speculator' (f. 251 b); Haggai, beg. 'Moriente Dario' (f. 252 b); Zechariah, beg. imperf. 'qui ab Ieremia' (f. 253); Malachi, three prologues, beg. ' Ultimum xii prophetarum', 'Malachias interpretatur', and 'Malachias aperte' (f. 256); Maccabees, the epistle of Rabanus Maurus to Geroldus, beg. 'Reuerentissimo et omni' (f. 257b, Migne, cix. 1127); Matthew, two prologues, beg. 'Plures fuisse and 'Matheus ex Iudea' (f. 279, Berger 196, 199); Mark, beg. 'Marcus euangelista' (f. 291 b, Berger 225); Luke, beg. 'Lucas Syrus natione' (f. 299 b, Berger 230); Romans, beg. 'Romani sunt in partes' (f. 322 b, Berger 280 A); 1 Cor., beg. ' Chorinthii sunt Achaici' (f. 327 b, Berger 280 B); Galatians, beg. ' Galathe sunt Greci ' (f. 334, Berger 280 D) ; 2 Thess., beg. 'Ad Thessalonicenses' (f. 335b). Modern chapters, though with many variations (e. g. in Baruch iii, iv, f. 210 b).

A few passages omitted in the text have been supplied in the margins by another hand (ff. 18 b, 20 b, &c.). Beg. (Joshua xiii. 16) '[e]iusdem torrentis media'. Ends (Hebr. vi. i) ' non rursum iac[i]entes fundamentum'.