Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.1.14
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- Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
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- MS Dd.1.14
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- Date
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- Second quarter of the 14th century C.E.
- Title
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- Prologue to the Vulgate
- Vulgate, Old Testament
- Vulgate, New Testament
- Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum
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- Jérôme (saint, 0345?-0420)
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- Jerome
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
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- HIERONYMUS (S.)
- Hieronymus (saint ; 0345?-0420)
- S. Hieronymus
- S. HIERONYMUS
- Hieronymus Stridonius
- Hieronymus
- HIERONYMUS
- IERONIMO
- HIERONIMO
- Jérôme (saint ; 0345?-0420)
- HIERONYMUS (s.)
- Sancti Jeromini
- S. Hieronymus,
- Jerome, S.
- Hieronymys Stridonius
- Jérôme (saint ; 0345?-0420)
- HIERONYMUS STRIDONIUS
- Jérôme
- Hieronymo
- Saint Jérôme
- Jérôme (0345?-0420 ; saint)
- Sanctus Hieronimus
- Jérôme (saint, 0345?-0420)
- Hieronymus (s.)
- Jheronimus Stridonius
- Hieronimi
- Hieronimus Stridonius
- Hieronymus Stridonensis
- JERONIMI
- Ieronimi
- Sancti Hieronymi
- Hieronymi
- Hieronimus
- S. Jérôme
- Jérôme (Saint)
- Jérôme saint 0345?-0420
- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius 345-420
- Hieronymus (heilige)
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
- Jeroni, sant, ca. 342-420
- Jerónimo, Santo
- Author: Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius
- Translator: Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius
- Jerome, c 345-420, Saint
- St Jerome
- Jerome, Saint (-419 or 420)
- Jerome, Saint (-419 or 420), author
- Hieronymus, Heilige, 347?-420
- Jérôme (saint ; 0345?-0420). Auteur.
- Jérôme (saint)
- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, 345-420
- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius
- Saint Jérôme
- Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus (345-420)
- Jerome, Saint, 347-420
- Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. c. 420)
- Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
- Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420, theologian and priest
- Jerome Saint (-419 or 420)
- Jérôme de Stridon, saint (345-420) > Père de l'Eglise
- Jérôme de Stridon, saint (345-420)
- Jérôme de Stridon (347/8-419/20)
- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (ca. 349-420)
- Jerónimo, Santo, 346-420
- Jerónimo, Santo, ca 343-420
- Jerónimo, Santo, ca 343-420 > , co-autor
- Jerónimo, Santo, ca 343-420 > , impr.
- Jerónimo, Santo, ca 343-420 > , trad.
- Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus - 348 - 420 - vertalerauteurbriefschrijver
- Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus - 348 - 420 - vertalerauteur voorwoord
- Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus - 348 - 420 - vertalerauteur
- Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus - 348 - 420 - auteur
- Hieronymus - auteur
- Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus - 348 - 420 - vertaler
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- Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
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- Author
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- Isidore of Seville
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
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- Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
- S. Isidorus Hispalensis
- Isidorus Hispalensis
- Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
- ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
- ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
- Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
- ISIDORE
- Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
- Isidorus
- Isidore de Séville
- Isidori Hispalensis
- Isidori
- ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
- Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
- Isidore (Saint), de Séville
- Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
- Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
- Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
- Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
- Isidorus van Sevilla
- Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
- Isidore
- Isodore of Seville
- Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
- Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
- Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
- Isidorus<Hispalensis>
- Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
- Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
- Isidore de Séville (saint)
- Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
- Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
- Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
- Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
- Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
- Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
- Isidorus <Hispalensis>
- Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
- Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
- Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 - auteur
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- Anselme de Laon (1050?-1117)
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- Author
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- Anselm of Laon
- Anselm, of Laon, -1117
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- Anselmus Laudunensis
- ANSELMUS LAUDUNENSIS
- Anselmus Laudunensis (?)
- Anselmus Laudunensis (1050?-1117)
- Anselme de Laon
- ANSELMUS LAUDUNENSIS.
- Anselm of Laon, c 1050-1117
- Anselm of Laon, -1117
- Anselmus Laudunensis, 1050?-1117
- Anselmus, Laudunensis, 1050-1117
- Anselmo de Laon, ca 1050-ca 1117 > , co-autor
- Anselmus, Laudunensis, ?-1117 > , coment.
- Anselmus Laudunensis - ca. 1050-1117 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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- Pierre Lombard (1095?-1160?)
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- Peter Lombard
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
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- Pierre Lombard (1095?-1160?)
- Petrus Lombardus
- Petrus Lombardus (1095?-1160?)
- PETRUS LOMBARDUS
- PETRUS LOMBARDUS, Parisiensis ep.
- Petri Lombardi
- Pierre Lombard
- Author: Petrus, Lombardus
- Lombard, Peter, c 1100-1160, Bishop of Paris
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
- Petrus Lombardus, 1095?-1160
- Petrus Lombardus, 1095-1160
- Petrus<Lombardus>
- Petrus, Lombardus, 1095-1160
- Petrus <Lombardus> (1095-1160)
- Lombard, Peter, 1100-1160
- Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (approximately 1100-1160)
- Pierre Lombard (1100-1160) > Chancelier de l'Université de Paris
- Pierre Lombard (1100-1160)
- Petrus Lombardus, Obispo de París, 1095-1160
- Petrus
- Lombardus, Petrus, 1096-1164
- Lombardus, Petrus, 1096-1164 > , ant. bibliog.
- Petrus Lombardus - ca. 1095 - ca. 1160 - auteur
- Petrus Lombardus - ca. 1095 - ca. 1160 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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- Pseudo-Hieronymus Stridonensis
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- Pseudo-Jerome
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
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- JEROME (PS.-)
- Pseudo-Hieronymus
- Jérôme (saint ; 0345?-0420)
- Hieronymus Stridonius (ps.)
- Ps. Hieronymus
- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, auteur prétendu
- Jérôme, saint, auteur prétendu
- Hieronymus (Pseudo-)
- Pseudo Jeroni, sant, ca. 342-420
- Pseudo Jerónimo, Santo
- Pseudo-Jerome, Unspecified
- Pseudo-Jerome
- Pseudo Jerome
- Pseudo-Hieronymus Stridonensis
- (Ps.-)Hieronymus
- Pseudo-Jerónimo, Santo > , co-autor
- Pseudo-Jerónimo, Santo
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- Étienne Langton (1150?-1228)
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- Stephen Langton
- Langton, Stephen, -1228
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- Stephanus Langton
- Langton, Stephanus (1150?-1228)
- Stephanus Langton( ?)
- Étienne Langton
- [STEFANUS LANGTON]
- Etienne Langton
- Langton, Étienne (1150?-1228)
- STEPHANUS LANGTON card.
- STEPHANUS LANGTON, card.
- Author: Langton, Stephanus
- Langton, Stephen
- Langton, Stephen, d 1228, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Langton, Stephen (1150?-1228)
- Stephen Langton (1155-1228)
- Langton, Étienne (1150?-1228) > Archévêque
- Étienne Langton (v. 1150 - 1228), Archevêque de Canterbury et cardinal
- Stephen Langton - ca. 1155 - 1228 - auteur (dubium)
- Stephen Langton - ca. 1155 - 1228 - auteur
- Stephen Langton - ca. 1155 - 1228 - auteurauteur (dubium)
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- John Moore (1646-1714)
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- Former owner
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- John Moore, Bishop of Ely (1646-1714)
- Moore, John, 1646-1714
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- John Moore
- John Moore (1646-1714)
- John Moore (d. 1714)
- Moore
- Moore, John 1646-1714
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- Georges I (roi de Grande-Bretagne, 1660-1727)
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- Former owner
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- King George I
- George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727
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- Description
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This manuscript contains the complete text of the Bible in a single volume. The text was copied by an Italian scribe, with the decoration being completed in England during the second quarter of the fourteenth century. It exemplifies important developments in how the Scriptures were copied, read, transmitted and mediated during the late medieval period, changes that continued to exert a guiding influence upon the production and reproduction of the Bible text beyond the medieval period and into the era of the printed book. Nothing is yet known of the circumstances in which it was made, or for whom; by the mid-fifteenth century, however, it appears to have been in the possession of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
The association of its decoration with later products of the Queen Mary Psalter workshop suggests either London or East Anglia as a possible locus of production (see Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts (1986), no. 75). The female personifications of Synagoga and Ecclesia (5r) have been painted in semi-grisaille; as Deidre Jackson and Nigel Morgan have noted, "The purple colour in particular...resembles grisaille in contemporary Parisian manuscripts by Jean Pucelle, even to the extent of the use of linear and dot stippling, a particular characteristic of Pucelle's technique. It is possible," they conclude, "that the English artists working in semi-grisaille had seen French manuscripts painted in the Pucellian technique" (see Panayotova, Colour (2016, no. 66).
The dissemination of the Bible in one volume has a long history. The earliest complete extant single-volume bible, Codex Amiatinus (now at the Bibliotheca Laurenziana in Florence), was produced around 700 C.E. in the north-east of England, at the Benedictine monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. Such bibles are commonly referred to as 'pandects': a Greek term of originally legal application meaning 'cover all', it was used to describe Byzantine legal texts, in particular a single volume that contained a comprehensive legal code. Single-volume bibles came in and out of fashion. Books of the Bible were, for centuries, circulated as distinct and discrete books, even alongside their one-volume equivalents. The physical unwieldiness of the complete Bible text, the lack of a set order for the constituent books, and the status of some books as canonical and others as apocryphal are factors that made the separation of the books of the Bible practicable, even desirable. The development from the mid-twelfth century onwards of glossed books of the Bible, in which the text was heavily annotated with theological interpretation and commentary, lent further weight - literally - to keeping them as separate entities.
Nevertheless, there were marked intervals in which single-volume bibles enjoyed a revival. The twelfth century, in particular, saw the production across Europe of very large, 'giant' bibles. Written in large script and often exquisitely decorated with miniatures and ornamental initials, these prestige items were used in institutional settings - primarily wealthy monasteries and cathedrals - as lectern bibles for the cycle of communal readings, as part of the liturgy but also in the refectory.
Single volumes continued to be produced after the heyday of the 'giant' bible had passed. CUL MS Dd.1.14, likely produced for institutional use, included features that had been developed in smaller, portable scholastic bibles. The constituent books follow a historical sequence and are often preceded by a specific prologue (drawing on the writings of Jerome or later exegetes). Accompaniments to earlier bibles, such as the canon tables of Eusebius, have been dispensed with; instead, clearer textual articulation has been introduced in the form of chapter divisions, and guides to the deciphering of the meaning of the text have been incorporated (the 'Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum', for example).
Such changes were part of a larger transformation in the way that the Bible was disseminated, read and mediated. As research by Eyal Poleg has shown (Approaching the Bible in medieval England (2009), there was a 'staggering paratextual uniformity in script and addenda, mise-en-page and textual division' in bibles produced between c. 1230 and c. 1450. The Bible became a 'highly efficient reference book', its narrative qualities taking second place to its use a source-book for preaching and teaching. The articulation of the text through capitular numbering - and their exploitation by theological treatises, biblical aids and concordances - enabled discrete reading strategies dependent upon the reader's priorities and the integration of such manuscripts into other forms of Biblical mediation, such as preaching and the performance of the liturgy.
The manuscript is on display in the exhibition Colour: The art and science of illuminated manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge from 30 July-30 December 2016.
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- Italy
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- Italy
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- Italie
- Italie (?)
- Italie (Toscane?)
- Italie (Venise ?).
- Italie ?
- Italie (région de Venise ?).
- Italie (Florence ?)
- Italie,
- Italie.
- Itàlia
- Italien
- Italia
- Italië
- Italie (Toscane ?)
- Itàlia (Toscana?)
- Italien (Toskana?)
- Italy (Tuscany?)
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- Italy (Verona)
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- Italy (Florence?)
- Italy (Naples?)(
- Italy (Rome?)
- Italy (Florence)
- Italy, Bologna (?)
- Italy, probably Naples
- Italy, Naples
- Italy, possibly Naples
- Italy (perhaps Bologna)
- Italy (Nonantola)
- Probably Northern Italy
- Padua or Venice
- Italy (Tuscany)
- Italy, northern (?)
- Italy and France (illumination)
- Italy and France (?)
- Most likely northern Italy
- Probably northern Italy (Verona?)
- [Italy]
- Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
- Italy [Ancona or Pesaro?], [copied by Joseph ben Nissim Fermi?]
- [Italy] copied by Samson ben Elijah Halfan
- Italy, Venice?
- Fols. 2-4: [Italy]
- Treviglio? (Italy)
- Fols. 1-98: [Italy]; fols. 100-302: [Italy]
- Rovere (della Luna, Trent?) (Italy)
- Ff. 1-64: [Italy]
- Italy, North?
- Italy, Bologna?
- Italy, Reggio-Emilia?
- Italy, Padua?
- Italy, Ferrara or Bologna
- Italy, Padua or Rome
- Italy, Ferrara?
- Italy, Genoa?
- Italy, Probably Padua
- Italy, Parma or Cremona?
- Italy, Padua or Venice
- Italy, Lombardy or Bologna?
- Italy, Umbria?
- Italy, Rome?
- Italy, Ferrara or Venice?
- Italy, Northeast?
- Italy, Bologna or Venice?
- Italy, Veneto, Venice?
- Italy, Rome or Naples
- Italy, South?
- Italy, Florence?
- Italy, Verona?
- Italy, Brescia or Padua?
- Italy, Ferrara or Padua?
- Italy, Venice or Padua
- Italy, Cremona Brescia? and Bologna
- Italy, Ferrara or Verona?
- Italy, Urbino or Mantua(?)
- Italy, Padua or Rome?
- Italy, Naples?
- Italy, North?, Siena?
- Italy, Probably Venice
- Italy, Venice or Treviso
- Italy, North? or French, South?
- Italy, Mantua or Ferrara?
- Italy, Rimini?
- Italy, Padua or Venice?
- Italy, Florence or Rome
- Italy, Northwest?
- Italy, North, Genoa?
- Italy, Lombardy or Verona
- Italy, Emilia?
- Italy, Venice or Verona
- Italy, Veneto?
- Italy, Emilia or Mantua?
- Italy, Northeast, Ferrara?
- Italy, Central?
- Italy, Genoa (?)
- Italy, Herculaneum(?)
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- Italy.
- Italië (?)
- Italia (?)
- [Italien (Teil 1)
- [Italien ]
- Italien (II)
- Italien (II.)
- Italien (I)
- Italien (IV)
- Itália
- [Italië]
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