The Bible, in French, with glosses and commentaries intercalated as translated and arranged by Guyart Desmoulins
MS. Douce 211
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
The Bible, in French, with glosses and commentaries intercalated as translated and arranged by Guyart Desmoulins
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 211
Summary
With many miniatures, illuminated capitals, etc. This volume belongs to the class of 'Petites Bibles historiales' described by Berger, but this MS. is not mentioned by him in his Bible Française au Moyen Age (1884). It omits the Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, has the short form of Job, and adds to the Psalter the Parisian 'Lectanie en Francois': yet its version of Ps. 137 (136) is that of the Paris MS. de l'Arsenal 5056 (Berger, p. 208). The first leaf is wanting, and one after fol. 197.
284 leaves in double columns.
Date
written early in the 14th cent.
Language
French
Physical facet
On parchment, illuminated
Physical extent
284 Leaves
Custodial history
'Ex bibliotheca et dono Aegidij Dez de Fontaine presbiteri Catalaunensis ... abbatis commendatorij de Caluomonte [Chaumont] ordinis Praemonstratensis diocesís Remensis die 24 Octobris 1680 ...' This gift was probably to the Maison Professe des Jésuites at Paris, as the book occurs in the catalogue of their MSS. in 1764 as no. 65 in one volume, and it is 'paraphé' by Mesnil as no. 20618.
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Collection contents
The Bible, in French, with glosses and commentaries intercalated as translated and arranged by Guyart Desmoulins
