Royal MS 1 A VI

I A. vi BIBLE, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version. The contents and arrangement are identical with those Of i A. ii. Gallican Psalter. The book of Zechariah is wrongly entitled 'Malachias' throughout. Many passages omitted by the original scribe are added in the margin by a contemporary hand. Modern chapters. At the end (f. 557) are the ' Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum' [by Remigius of Auxerre], without title. Vellum; ff. ii + 604. 6 in. x 4 in. XIII cent Gatherings generally of 26 to 30 leaves. Written, probably in France, in a very small hand, in double columns Of 48 lines. Sec. fol. 'est ut': Initial letters of books illuminated, containing small miniatures ; those of chapters ornamented in red and blue. Edges gilt, with traces of gauffering. On f. i is a I5th cent note asking for prayers for the soul of brother Roger Crome, who gave this Bible to brother Richard Franke; on f. ii is the name of an owner, Thomas Armestronge (?), in a 16th cent. hand; and on f. ii b is a 16th cent. shield of arms, sa., a falcon (or eagle) with right foot raised, or.