YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
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Beinecke MS 575
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. Biblia latina, with Interpretationes nominum
Hebraicorum of Remigius of Auxerre. Latin manuscript. France, ca. 1240.
Vellum. 630 ff. (145 x 95 mm.) 2 columns, 45 lines. Fine gothic script.
Historiated initial at beginning of each book; illuminated initial before each
prologue; other initials in red and blue penwork; headings in red and blue.
Bound in red morocco, gilt, lined with blue silk with gilt dentelle borders ,
by Bozerian Jeune.
I-XII^^24, XIII^^23, XIV-XXI^^24, XXII^^25, XXIII^^24, XXIV^^22, XXV^^13,
XXVI^^24, XXVII^^21.
Comments: Although the script is quite different from that of Yale Ms 433 (the
Vanderbilt Bible) the illumination is similar. There are occasional marginal
notes in Greek, a few in Latin and Hebrew.
Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf Ex BBL FF. Min. Pruvin. Marquess of
Lothian (sale, Anderson Galleries, 27-28 January 1932, item 4), bought by
Philip Brooks. Bookplate of Charles C. Kalbfleisch and Charles J. Rosenbloom.
Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom, October, 1974.
Bibliography: Selections from the Famous Libraries of the Most Honorable The
Marquess of Lothian (London, 1932) p. 4.
Albert Derolez