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Add MS 14789
- Record Id:
- 040-002086456
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002086454
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001404.0x00031c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14789
- Title:
- Bible ('The Parc Abbey Bible'), vol. 2
- Scope & Content:
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This is the second volume of a three-volume Romanesque Bible, containing the books of Kings, Chronicles, Wisdom and Maccabees. At the start of this volume are prefixed chronological tables of events, from the birth of Christ to the year 1300, written in various hands with a few later additions. Add MS 14788 is the first volume and Add MS 14790 is the third volume.
Decoration:
Three historiated initials in colours with gold (ff. 10r, 46r, 121r). Seven inhabited initials in colours with gold (ff. 8v, 29v, 65r, 83v, 84r, 132v, 148r). Eight foliate initials in colours with gold (ff. 100r, 120r, 131v, 136v, 139r, 146v, 170r, 187r).
Volumes 1 and 2 may have been illuminated by a single artist, whose style reflects northern French or Rhenish influence (see Cahn, Romanesque Bible Illumination (1982), p. 265).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002086454
040-002086456 - Is part of:
- Add MS 14788-14790 : Bible ('The Parc Abbey Bible'), 3 volumes
Add MS 14789 : Bible ('The Parc Abbey Bible'), vol. 2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002086454[0002]/040-002086456
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 14788-14790
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_14789 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1148
- End Date:
- 1148
- Date Range:
- 1148
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 435 x 300
Foliation: ff. 198 (+ two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end).
Layout: two columns.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Leuven)
Provenance:
The Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary in Parc, near Leuven, in the diocese of Liege, written in 1148, during the abbacy of Philippe (1142-1165): colophon in Add MS 14788, 'Anno millesimo centesimo quadragesimo octavo Incarnationis dominice Scriptus est liber iste In honore Sancte Marie in Parcho' (f. 197r); and colophon in Add MS 14789, 'Anno ab incarnatione domini millesimo centesimo quadrasimo octavo Scriptus est liber iste In honore Sancte Marie in Parcho Si quis fum abstulerit anathema sit' (f. 198r).
Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their catalogue no. 68, p. 11, as 'BIBLIA, SIVE VETUS ET NOVUM TESTAMENTUM EX VERSIONE ET CUM PRÆFATIONIBUS S. HIERONYMI, 3 vol.Anno millesimo centesimo quadragesimo octavo, incarnationis dominicæ scriptus est liber iste in honore Sanctæ Mariæ in Parcho ; si quis eum abstulerit anathema sit.This Bible as appears by the above Colophon, was written in the year 1148, for the Monastery of the Park, near Louvain, where it remained till recently. It is in perfect preservation, and is ornamented with many splendid and elaborate illuminations ; and is mentioned by Sander AS HAVING BEEN EXAMINED BY THE DEPUTIES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT FOR THE VULGATE EDITION. A most curious Historical Chronicle is inserted at the beginning, in which the remarkable events of the world are brought down to the year 1310. It may certainly, as containing this Chronicle, the date of its scription, the curious illuminations, and for the importance of its text, be cited as one of the most valuable Latin Bibles brought into this country for many years, 157l. 10s. - - Fol.'; purchased from them.
Purchased from Payne and Foss by the British Museum on 16 November 1843 together with eighty-one other manuscripts for £840.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm .
- Publications:
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Georg Swarzenski, Die Salzburger Malerei, 2 vols (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1913), I, p. 69 n. 4 (Add MS 17488); I, p. 76, n. 4 (Add MS 17490); I, p. 132, n. 4 (Add MS 17489).
D. H. Turner, Romanesque Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Museum, 1966), pls upper cover.
Gretel Chapman, 'The Bible of Floreffe: Redating of a Romanesque Manuscript', Gesta (1971), 49-62 (pp. 56-58, figs 11, 14, 16).
C. R. Dodwell, Painting in Europe: 800 to 1200 (London: Penguin Books, 1971), p. 179.
Elisabeth Klemm, Ein romanischer Miniaturenzyklus aus dem Maasgebiet, Winer Kunstgeschichtliche Forschungen, 2 (Vienna: Adolf Holzhausens, 1973), p. 90 [cited as 14388].
H. Köllner, 'Zur Datierung der Bibel von Floreffe. Bibelhandschriften als Geschichtsbücher?', in Rhein und Maas. Kunst und Kultur 800-1400, 2 vols (Cologne, 1973), II, pp. 361-76, esp. 361, 362, 368-73.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), I, no. 109 (p. 39); II, pl. 81a-c.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Bible Illumination (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982), no. 45, pl. 90 [with additional bibliography].
Yolanta Zaluska, 'Entre texte et image: les stemmatic bibliques au Sud et au Nord des Pyrénéess', Bulletin de la Société National des Antiquaires de France (Paris,1986), pp. 142-60.
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, A Medieval Scriptorium: Sancta Maria Magdalena de Frankendal, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, 3, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1990), I, pp. 123, 128, 90, 124, 110; II, fig. 339.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, p. 99.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Mauscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 35.
Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century (Leuven: Brepols, 1999), pls 68 and 69.
Christopher de Hamel, The Book: A History of the Bible (London: Phaidon, 2001), p. 78.
Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Brepols, 2002), no. 21 [exhibition catalogue].
Judith H. Oliver, 'Chaos in the Scriptorium: The Parc Bible of 1263', in 'Als Ich Can': Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. by Bert Cardon and others, 2 vols (Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), pp. 1059-78 (p. 1059) [with additional bibliography].
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 10 and 92, fig. 79.
Christian Heck, 'Un nouveau statut de la parole? L’image légendée entre énoncé, commentaire, et parole émise', in Qu'est-ce que nommer? L'image légendée entre monde monastique et pensée scolastique, ed. by Christian Heck (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), pp. 7-28 (pp. 20-21, 27 n. 82, fig. 15).
Jean-Baptiste Piggin, Isidore’s Old Testament Commentary: An Unknown Epitome (ResearchGate: 2016), URL: http://www.piggin.net/stemmahist/libertext.htm [Accessed 31.10.16].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)