[Bible. ca. 1250].
Saint Jerome (circa 347-420)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1250
Materials
Measurements
204 x 165 x 73 mm
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3130713
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: Fine calf parchment - slunk? Ink/Pigment: Black manuscript ink with large penwork initials and running titles in red and blue and smaller capitals picked out in red Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: late 16th cent - 1595? Binder's Name: German End Leaves: Sewn double fold of plain white paper, outermost leaf as pastedown Structure: English Edges: Plain cut, coloured blue and polished Spine Lining: Heavily rounded spine with close to full-height parchment transverse linings in all panels End Bands: Stuck-on loosely worked L-R 4x4 in red and white thread over a parchment lining folded over a core. Joints pasted to the outside of the boards. Bookmark: None Boards: Beech wood with interior half bevel H,T,Fe and shallow exterior centre bevels. The fore-edge of the boards is thicker than the spine edge, which has an exterior cushion. Perpendicular lacing, pegged in recesses Covering: Full clean, tanned calf, polished Tooling Spine: blind-tooled triple fillet at head and tail of each panel, cross-hatched band across head and tail of spine. Tooling Sides: blind tooled; 3 concentric rectangular frames created by 3 rolls of diminishing size with initial and date panels above and below central frame. Centre bevels and lacing area defined by triple fillet Furniture: Pair of brass hook and bar clasps on fore-edge, clasping B-F. Each strap secured by two round-headed brass nails in square-cut recess under the leather (which has no tooling impression over the recess) Enclosure: Foredge card wrapper and two black tapes Binding Notes: At the tail edge of the right pastedown there is a binder’s note: Binden 18 sh de 195 die 19 Julij
Bibliographic description
[iii, 495, iii] leaves ; 21 cm. Running number: 6855. Fol. 1 discoloured; burn damage and marks at foot of ff.1-9; leaf before f.198 has been partially torn off; ff.493-495 damaged at head and partially missing; wanting final leaf (stub remains); worm holes from front board through to f.10, more extensive worm damage on rear endpapers and into lower board. Provenance: sixteenth-century inscription at foot of f.2: "Anno d[o]m[in]i 1545 vmb eyn kyndtlein dage ... [?]" which records death of "goes in der hallen[?]". Sixteenth-century binder's[?] note at foot of rear pastedown: "Binden 18 R de/195 die 19 ... [?, rest illegible]". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742), of Nocton in Lincolnshire. Eighteenth-century former shelfmark on front pastedown, probably in the hand of Sir Richard Ellys: D.5.1. Possibly the quarto Bible recorded under 'Biblia sacra' in John Mitchell's catalogue of Ellys's library, though other MS. bibles in Ellys's library recorded under the same title in the catalogue were sold by Lord Lothian in 1932. Binding: sixteenth-century German binding of blind-stamped brown calfskin over wooden boards; boards bevelled on inside edge; sewn onto four (double?) sewing supports; red and white endbands; blind thin thick thin fillet framework with three rolls, the outermost and broadest including St. George and the dragon, vases with foliage, a bearded head in medallion, two birds, and a double-headed eagle; middle roll features diapered lozenge pattern with four small circular dots within the lozenges and three small dots on either side; innermost roll features three different floral designs; upper, lower and middle panels of central frame are blank; two brass clasps with engraved and punched decoration on lower board, two brass catches on upper board; spine with four raised bands, blind thin thick thin fillets on either side of the bands, fillets and repeated x-shaped tool at head and tail; manuscript title written directly onto spine in second panel: 'BIBLIA / Pergameno scripta'; bookblock edges stained bluey-green. Worm holes through both boards.
Makers and roles
Saint Jerome (circa 347-420), translator