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Source des données : Parker on the Web

• Résumé : CCCC MS 485 is an English Latin Bible of the middle years of the thirteenth century which includes a list of books once owned by Robert of Aldsworth (fl. 1275), a monk of Gloucester. The Bible was at Gloucester by the third quarter of the thirteenth century as evidenced by an inscription mentioning Reginald de Haunne, abbot 1263-84. The book is decorated with ornamental and figure initials in a simple style, not using gold grounds.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  1r-381v - Bible

  Note : (1r) Prologues

  incipit : (1r) Frater Ambrosius

  incipit : (3r) Desiderii mei

  Note : (3r) Genesis-Deut.

  Note : (62r) Jos. (pr.)

  Note : (70r) Iud.

  Note : (78r) Ruth

  Note : (79r) Reg. (pr.)

  Note : (119v) Paral. (pr.)

  Note : No prayer of Manasses

  Note : (141r) Ezr. (pr.)

  Note : (144v) Neh.

  Note : (149v) Esth. (pr.)

  Note : (153v) Tob. (pr.)

  Note : (157r) Iud. (pr.)

  Note : (162r) Iob (pr.)

  Note : Followed by

  Note : (170v) Job exemplar patientie etc.

  Note : (171r) Psalter (Gall.)

  Note : 191v blank

  Note : (192r) Prov. (pr.) - Eccl.

  Note : (202r) Cant. (in dialogue with rubrics)

  Note : (203v) Sap. (pr.)

  Note : (208v) Ecclus.

  Note : (223r) Oratio Salomonis

  Note : (224r) Isa.-Ezech. (proll.)

  Note : At the end of Ezech. is a paragraph

  Note : (272r) Ubicunque medicina uel sanitas necessaria est Raphael uadit. Interpretations of several names are given, ending with: Zacharias lingua syra adiutor. mundum muliebrem cultam dicit in auro

  Note : (272r) Dan. (pr.)

  Note : (278v) Twelve Prophets (proll.)

  Note : (291r) Macc. (pr.)

  Note : (308r) Evv. (pr. Matheus ex iuda, etc. Luke has pr. at end)

  Note : (341v) Paul. Epp. (proll.: Romani sunt partes ytalie)

  Note : (362r) Acts (pr.)

  Note : (372r) Cath. Epp. (pr.)

  Note : (376v) Apoc. (pr. of Gilbert)

  incipit : (376v) Omnes qui pie uolunt uiuere.

  Note : (381v) At the end of Apoc. is written (xvii): A prophesie found vnder ye ground foundation of S. Denis in fraunce, written in hebrue. 1620 Generall warres in Italie. 1622 There shall be no Pastor. ...... 1630 All flouds shall drie up and there shalbe but one Pastor

  Note : (381v) At the bottom of the page in another hand (xvi or xvii): Biblia hec sacra per S. Hieronumum translata et manuscripta hec sunt Gulielmi Roberts. Ex dono Hieremiae Martyn medicinae doctoris

  Note : (bib) On the lining of the last cover are earlier inscriptions: (a) an erasure of some lines

  Note : (bib) (b) Quisquis eris qui transieris pro me precor oraSum quod eris fueram quod et es sta perlege plora

  Note : (bib) (c) In the hand of the Gloucester inscription at the beginning: Omnis claustralis perfesse (professe?) sub ordinis alisRespice deuote passus sum qualia pro teIn claustro mecum residens sis sum quia tecumPer claustri sedem celi lucraberis edem. Wylls (?) (erased)

  Note : The decoration of the book is odd and seems to me provincial. No gold seems to occur: there is an unusual yellow, and a blue-green (e.g. Judges and Philippians). White dots and rings are copiously used (e.g. Joshua)

  Note : The notable initials are

  Note : (1r) Prologue. The usual writing figure

  Note : (3r) Genesis. Six pictures of the days of creation

  Note : (18v) Exodus. A group of four figures

  Note : (30v) Levit. Two figures: the one on R. looks out of a window or door

  Note : (79v) Note the colouring of I Reg

  Note : (90v) 2 Reg. Outline sketch of a king in the margin

  Note : (129r) 2 Par. has odd gay colouring

  Note : (171r) Ps. 1. David playing the harp

  Note : The Nocturnes and the triple division are marked by decorative initials

  Note : (179v) Salvum me fac. A man in the water

  Note : (181v) Exultate. Man on horseback looking back to L. and holding up a rod

  Note : (184r) Cantate and Domini exaudi each have a black monk praying

  Note : (186r) Dixit dominus. Christ throned, blessing

  Note : (192r) From Prov. to Ecclus. the initials are in red and blue with delicate penwork, very bright in colour

  Note : (224r) With Isaiah the polychrome initials begin again. No more figured initials occur

  Note : (341v) The Pauline Epistles show some very strange combinations of colour