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BIBLE
Catalogue reference: Sion L40.2/L4
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- Sion L40.2/L4
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Title (The name of the record)
- BIBLE
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Date (When the record was created)
- 13th century
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Description (What the record is about)
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A Bible in Latin, written in England or possibly Ireland (see f. 376v). ff. 1-2. Medieval vellum fly-leaves. At f. 2r is a list of the books of the Bible. ff. 3r-368r. The Bible in an unusual order, Genesis-2 Chronicles, Prayer of Manasses, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Job, Sapiential books, 1, 2 Maccabees, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Minor prophets, Gospels, Pauline epistles, Acts, Apocalypse, Catholic epistles. No psalter. Ephesians v. 2 to Acts v. 32 missing owing to the loss of a quire after f. 348. Isaiah begins a new quire (f. 217), before which there is a blank space. Six lines of verse follow Minor prophets, 'Osee saluans ... Malachias ultimus horum'. The prologues are 36 of the common set and 16 others, shown here by *: F. Stegmüller,'Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aeviii', nos. 311, 323, 328, 327, 330, 332, 335, 341+342*, 344, 357, 350* (follows Job), 457, 462, 551, 482, 492, 494, 487, 500, 511, 510, 509*, 515, 512*, 519 + 517, 516*, 534, 522*, 526, 525*, 531, 529*, 534, 532*, 538, 535*, 539, 540*, 543, 595*, 581*, 601*, 677 (... scribens eis ab athenis siue a chorinto per timotheum), 685, 699, 707, 715, thenceforward missing (see above) to 835*, 829*, 809. As a rule a new chapter does not begin on a new line, but is shown only by a coloured initial (see Physical Description). Line numbering by fives between the columns on ff. 3-18, 217v, 218, 274, 335v-7. f. 2 has a list of the books in the order in which they occur here, but including the psalter: the psalter cannot, however, ever have formed part of the text, since Proverbs follows Job on the same page. The remainder was added by other hands in the thirteenth century: ff. 368v-372v. Tables of chapters of Genesis-4 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Daniel, harmonized Gospels in one series, Acts, Maccabees. 'Hic incipiunt tituli hystoriales per totam bibliam. De creatione empirei celi ... De celebritate propter uictoriam. Expliciunt historie biblie'. MS. Bodley 803 is another copy. ff. 373r-376v. A table of Old Testament, Epistle, and Gospel lections of temporale and sanctorale. Dominic occurs in the sanctorale, but not Francis; also the following English saints: Edward king and martyr, Cuthbert, Alphege, Dunstan, Aldhelm, Alban, Swithun, Kenelm, Oswald king and martyr, Edmund king and martyr. f. 376v. (In the same hand as ff. 373-376r). 'Canon da wiafigea air ...'. Six quatrains of Irish, the first five recording the names of the books of the Bible and the sixth written lower down the page, noting that Lent occupies 42 out of 366 days in the year. Printed by Anne O'Sullivan in 'An Sagart', 7/4 (1964), pp. 34-35. Offprint in Lambeth Palace Library. ff. 376v-377r. A table of numbers, in words and in Roman and Arabic numerals.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Lambeth Palace Library
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Sion College
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 377 ff.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Written probably in England or (cf. f. 376v) Ireland. The date '23 /anno 1535' is on f. 376v. Various Sion College shelf-marks, the earliest C3 (partly obliterated) at f. 4r. Two Latin Bibles 'S. Biblia Latina, minuto et vulgari charactere, 8vo' are recorded in William Reading, 'Bibliothecae cleri Londinensis in Collegio Sionensi catalogus' (London, 1724), with the shelf marks C2 and C3. They are now Sion L40.2/L5 and L4. One was in Sion College by 1697 when recorded in Edward Bernard, 'Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum angliae et Hiberniae' as item 4083: 'Biblia Latina complectens Novis Veterisque libros omnes cum 2 lib. Macchabaeorum, 8vo'. This was not recorded at Sion College in 1666, and probably came from the library of George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley; see the description of Sion L40.2/E62. The other was given to Sion College by Henry Compton, Bishop of London, in 1707 (Sion L40.2/E64, p. 122: 'Biblia Latina MS', listed amongst the quartos). Transferred from Sion College to Lambeth Palace Library, 1996.
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Leather binding, 208 x 145 mm., early 19th century, in the same style as Sion L40.2/L13-15. Parchment leaves. ff. 1, 2 are medieval fly-leaves. 200 x 132mm. Written space 130 x 86 mm. 2 cols. 59 lines. Collation of ff. 3-377: 1-17(12); 18(10); 19-30(12); 31(10); 32(8) wants 8 blank. Initials: (i) books and many prologues begin not with a single initial but with a whole line of elongated coloured letters alternately red and blue with ornament of the other colour; (ii) to some prologues, 4-line, red or blue, with ornament of the other colour; (iii) occasionally to chapters, as (ii), but 2-line; (iv) usually to chapters, 1-line, red or blue. Secundo folio 'Hic est liber'. Extensive marginal notes in a sixteenth century hand.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/855eb579-fc3b-4c56-8c0d-69441cbcb43e/
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SION COLLEGE MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION
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SION COLLEGE: LATIN MANUSCRIPTS
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BIBLE