Manuscript Level
| City | Oxford |
| Institution | Oxford |
| Library | Bodleian |
| Shelfmark | MS. Lat. bib. e. 7 |
| Nickname | The de Brailes Bible |
| Provenance | Made in Oxford, for a Dominican(?); Prior Johannes Linden, presented to Nicholas Boheler of Spira (Speyer or Spiere?), 15th cent.; Isabella Fernandes, presented to the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, Antwerp, 1647; Alfred Pfeiffer, with his bookplate; Olschki, 1915, sold to C. W. Dyson Perrins, his sale 1/21/59, lot 59; bought at Sotheby's 5 July 1976, lot 81. |
| Bibliography | Suzanne Lewis, Reading images: narrative discourse and reception in the thirteenth-century illuminated Apocalypse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, p. 349 n. 36; Christopher de Hamel, A history of illuminated manuscripts, 2nd edn., London 1994, p. 140 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R; The History of the University of Oxford, vol. II, Late Medieval Oxford, eds. J. I. Catto & Ralph Evans, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, p. xxxii [list of unprinted sources]; Malcolm B. Parkes, 'Buchversorgung und Buchgebrauch in den Ordenshäusern der Oxforder Universität', in Der Codex im Gebrauch, eds. Christel Meier, Dagmar Hüpper & Hagen Keller (Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums 11. - 13. Juni 1992) (Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 70), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1992, pp. 109-126, at p. 115; Pierre Riché & Guy Lobrichon, eds., Le Moyen Age et la Bible (Bible de tous les temps, 4), Paris: Editions Beauchesne, 1984, p. 92 |
| NotesMS | Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library. Images scanned principally from Bodleian filmstrip Roll 286.1 |
Part Level
| PartNumber | 1 |
| Place | Oxford |
| Date | 13th century, second quarter |
| Description | parchment |
| Country | English, Oxford |
| Other Decoration | Historiated and decorated initials. |
Text Level
| Text Number | 1 |
| Title | Bible |
| Languages | Latin |
Item Level
| Item Number | 1.1 |
| Folio Number | fol. 2r |
| Caption | Jerome's Prologue. Initial F(rater Ambrosius). Dragon. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 1 |
| Item Number | 1.2 |
| Folio Number | fol. 4v (detail) |
| Caption | Jerome's Prologue. Miniature of Moses, horned with flames. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 2 |
| Item Number | 1.3 |
| Folio Number | fol. 5r |
| Caption | Genesis. Initial I(n). God creating earth; dividing waters; creating grass and trees; sun and moon; shaping man from clay. Crucifixion, with Virgin and St. John Evangelist. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 3 |
| Item Number | 1.4 |
| Folio Number | fol. 21r (detail) |
| Caption | Exodus. Initial H(ec) |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 4 |
| Item Number | 1.5 |
| Folio Number | fol. 34v (detail) |
| Caption | Leviticus. Initial U(ocavit). God speaks to Moses. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 5 |
| Item Number | 1.6 |
| Folio Number | fol. 44r (detail) |
| Caption | Numbers. Initial L(ocutus). God speaks to Moses. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 6 |
| Item Number | 1.7 |
| Folio Number | fol. 57v (detail) |
| Caption | Deuteronomy. Initial H(ec). Moses speaking to the people. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 7 |
| Item Number | 1.8 |
| Folio Number | fol. 69r (detail) |
| Caption | Joshua. Initial E(t). Joshua speaking to the people. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 8 |
| Item Number | 1.9 |
| Folio Number | fol. 77r (detail) |
| Caption | Judges. Initial P(ost). Samson fights with lion; man in hood. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 9 |
| Item Number | 1.10 |
| Folio Number | fol. 85v |
| Caption | Ruth. Initial I(n). Dragon. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 10 |
| Item Number | 1.11 |
| Folio Number | fol. 86v (detail) |
| Caption | Kings I (Samuel I, A.V.). Initial F(uit). King seated. Dragon. |
| Notes | Source: Roll 286.1 frame 11 |
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