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- Record Id:
- 040-002095475
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002095473
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001517.0x0002ae
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057739188.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 18857
- Title:
- Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx) (2nd of 2 volumes)
- Scope & Content:
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This large codex is the second of two volumes comprising an illuminated copy of Guyart des Moulins's Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, known as La Grande Bible historiale complétée (Fournié, 'Les manuscrits de la Bible historiale' (2009), para. 51-52). The manuscript was likely produced in Paris between 1410-15. The second volume includes Proverbs-Revelations; for the first volume see Additional MS 18856.
Contents:
ff. 1r-11r: Proverbs.
ff. 11r-14r: Ecclesiastes.
ff. 14r-15v: Song of Songs.
ff. 15v-22v: Wisdom.
ff. 22v-38r: Ecclesiasticus.
ff. 38r-57v: Isaiah.
ff. 57v-78v: Jeremiah.
ff. 78v-80r: Lamentations.
ff. 80v-83r: Baruch.
ff. 83r-101r: Ezekiel.
ff. 101r-109v: Daniel.
ff. 109v-112v: Hosea.
ff. 112v-113v: Joel.
ff. 113v-116r: Amos.
f. 116r: Abdias.
ff. 116r-117r: Jonas.
ff. 117r-118v: Micah.
ff. 118v-119v: Nahum.
ff. 119v-120r: Habakkuk.
ff. 120v-121r: Zephaniah.
ff. 121r-122r: Haggai.
ff. 122r-125r: Zechariah.
ff. 125r-126r: Malachi.
ff. 125r-138v: Maccabees 1.
ff. 138v-147r: Maccabees 2.
ff. 147-161v: Gospel of Matthew.
ff. 161v-171v: Gospel of Mark.
ff. 171v-188r: Gospel of Luke.
ff. 188r-199v: Gospel of John.
ff. 199v-227v: Pauline Epistles.
ff. 227v-239r: Acts.
ff. 239r-240v: Epistle of James.
ff. 240v-244v: Epistles of Peter.
ff. 244v-245r: Epistles of John.
ff. 245r-250v: Revelation.
Decoration:
2 full-page framed miniatures with full rinceaux border and added coat of arms, in colours with gold (ff. 1r, 148r). 42 column-width framed miniatures, each with partial border and an initial in rose or blue on a gold ground with floriate decoration (ff. 14r, 15v, 21v, 38v, 57v, 80v, 83r, 102r, 110r, 112r, 113v, 117r, 118v, 120v, 122r, 126r, 138v, 148r, 162r, 172r, 188r, 200r, 204v, 209r, 212r, 214r, 215v, 217r, 218r, 219r, 219v, 221r, 222r, 223r, 223v, 224r, 227v, 239v, 240v, 242r, 243r, 244v, 245r). Numerous small initials in gold, blue and rose with pen-flourishing. Running titles in gold and blue, with decoration in red and black and with rinceaux border above. Rubrics in red.
The illuminations have been attributed to the Bedford Trend (ff. 1r, 14r, 21v, 57v, 138v-162r, 199r, 204r, 214r-218r, 222r-224r, 239v-243r) and the Master of the Cité des Dames (ff. 15v, 38v, 80v, 83r, 102r, 110r, 112v, 113v, 117r, 118v, 120v, 122r, 126r, 172r, 200r, 209r, 212r, 219r, 219v, 221r, 227v, 244v, 245r) according to Meiss, French Painting (1974), pp. 365 and 379.
The subject of the miniatures are:
f. 1r: The opening page of Proverbs with a two-tier miniature of Solomon teaching below God and Christ, with the coat of arms of England and France, an illuminated initial and full foliate border containing the title 'Parabole[s] Sal[e]mon';
f. 14r: Man and a woman at the beginning of the Song of Songs;
f. 15v: Solomon teaching;
f. 21v: Three men in prayer before a statue;
f. 38v: Isaiah;
f. 57v: God and Jeremiah;
f. 80v: Baruch reading the Book of Jeremiah to the Israelites;
f. 83r: Vision of Ezechiel;
f. 102r: Daniel, Nebuchadnezzer and the golden statue;
f. 110r: Hosea, Gomer and their two children in prayer before God;
f. 112v: Joel and the Israelites praying to God;
f. 113v: God and Amon before Jerusalem in flames;
f. 117r: God and Micah before the burning idols;
f. 118v: Nahum praying to God, surrounded by dead men;
f. 120v: God and Zephaniah before Jerusalem, taken by angels;
f. 122r: God and Zacharias;
f. 126r: Battle scene from Maccabees;
f. 138v: A sacrificial offering;
f. 148r: St Matthew with a half-page framed miniature of the Trinity and the four Evangelists with the coat of arms of England and France, illuminated initial and a full foliate border;
f. 162r: St Mark writing;
f. 172r: St Luke with an angel;
f. 188r: St John with an angel;
f. 200r: St Paul preaching to men and animals;
f. 204v: St Paul showing a nude man in prayer to clothed, seated men;
f. 209r: St Paul and a man addressing a group;
f. 212r: St Paul showing an angel to men and women;
f. 214r: St Paul and a man addressing the a group;
f. 215v: Two men facing two priests and a monk;
f. 217r: Two men preaching to a group;
f. 218r: Men in prayer before God;
f. 219r: Three men addressing a group in prayer before God;
f. 219v: God and St Paul sending a book of Timothy;
f. 221r: God, St Paul and Timothy;
f. 222r: St Paul and Titus;
f. 223r: God delivering a work to Titus;
f. 223v: Men in prayer before God;
f. 224r: A group before God;
f. 227v: Pentecost;
f. 239v: St James;
f. 240v: St Peter;
f. 242r: St Simian;
f. 243r: Two Apostles;
f. 244v: St Judas;
f. 245r: God, St John and the beasts of the Apocalypse.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002095473
040-002095475 - Is part of:
- Add MS 18856-18857 : "LA BIBLE Hystoriaulz, ou les hystoires escolastres;" translated from the Latin of Petrus Comestor by Guyart des…
Add MS 18857 : Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx) (2nd of 2 volumes) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002095473[0002]/040-002095475
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057739188.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1410
- End Date:
- 1420
- Date Range:
- c 1415
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 450 x 330 mm (text space 290 x 200 mm) in two columns.
Foliation: ff. i + 296 [where f. i is a paper pastedown; + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end].
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris).
Provenance: Charles de Valois (b. 1446, d. 1472), duke of Normandy, his arms added (ff. 3 , 78): may have been acquired by him after he was granted the Duchy of Normandy in 1465-1466.
Inscribed, 17th-century 'J. Hazeu': inscription pasted on the upper parchment flyleaf of Add MS 18856 (f. i): 'DEEZE BYBEL SPREEKT. Kwas in de Waereld, eer de Drukkonst zag het Leeven: Myn Maaker heeft tot Roem! my met de Pen geschreeven: Geschilderd met’t Penceel; één Proefstuk van geduld! Wind by bolmaakt in my, op’t Heerelykst verbvuld. J. HAZEU. Cz'.
Sir John Tobin (b. 1763, d. 1851), Liverpool shipping merchant: purchased by him from R. H. Evans, London bookseller, in 1833 and given to his son, John Tobin, in 1838.
Reverend John Tobin (b. 1809) of Liscard Hall, near Brighton: sold by him to William Boone, London bookseller in 1851.
Purchased by the British Museum from William Boone, London bookseller, 2 February 1852 (a note on f. iv).
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 161.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 11.
Samuel Berger, La bible française au moyen âge (Paris: Champion, 1884), pp. 206, 219, 406-07.
Rosy Schilling, 'The Master of Egerton 1070 (Hours of Rene d'Anjou)', Scriptorium, 8 (1954), 272-82 (p. 279 n. 24).
Millard Meiss, 'The "De Levis Hours" and the Bedford Workshop', Yale Lectures on Medieval Illumination (New Haven, 1972), pp. 22-24, figs 51, 57, 58.
Millard Meiss with Sharon Off Dunlap Smith and Elizabeth Home Beaton, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries, 2 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), pp. 364-65, 379.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 138.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scholars (London: British Library, 2007), no. 128.
Eléonore Fournié, L'iconographie de la 'Bible Historiale', Répertoire iconographique de la Littérature du Moyen Age (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), pp. 14, 16, 19, 34, 55, 108.
Eléonore Fournié, 'Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bible historiale (2/3)' (2009), online at [https://acrh.revues.org/1468?lang=en#tocto1n2] [accessed 20.11.15].
Gregory T. Clark, Art in a Time of War (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016), pp. 260-61.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World (London: Thames and Hudson and British Library, 2016), no. 40.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)