Bible, with Postilla of Hugh of Saint-Cher — 1507–1511; Multiple places of origin

Title

Bible, with Postilla of Hugh of Saint-Cher — 1507–1511; Multiple places of origin

Shelfmark

MSS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 65-9

Associated place

Venice

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Brescia

French, Lyon

Date

1507–1511

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Good miniatures

Diagrams.

Fine borders.

Initials. Illuminated by Pierre Vanye of Lyon. The first part was written by Henri de Beaujardin 'habitatorem Varambonis in Brescia', and volumes III, IV, and V after his death by Jean Broquet, clerk of the diocese of Cambrai, born at Hennegau. Calligraphic flourishes. (Pächt and Alexander i. 822)

Binding

18th century, late, Italian, Venice (five volumes, uniformly bound): wood boards; drab red leather, blind-tooled with lines and rolls forming three frames; spines with thin gilt roll outlining the cords, and a gilt green-leather label; paste-downs of marbled paper, in several similar patterns; flyleaves with Venetian watermarks (‘tre lune’, etc.). Outside measurements: (MSS. 65–67) c. 541–549 361–380 c. 98–125 (books closed, with or allowing for corner-pieces); (MSS. 68–69, Psalms, somewhat larger) 562–570 385–393 c. 123–150 (books closed, with or allowing for corner-pieces).

Heavy brass furnishings, each board originally with four corner-pieces (possibly from earlier bindings) and, in different style, a centrepiece monogram ‘MLC’ under a coronet (? for Matteo Luigi Canonici). Detached items of this metal furniture from MSS. 65, 66, 67 and 68 (removed before 1998) were given the separate shelfmark MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 69* in 2020, leaving two pieces lost.

Traces of earlier binding(s): gilt edges with remains of bold patterns, 16th century?; former paste-downs with traces of green/blue fabric or brown leather (consecutive coverings?); no clasps.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807