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