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Country of Location:
Country of Location
Switzerland
Location:
Location
Sion/Sitten
Library / Collection:
Library / Collection
Médiathèque Valais
Shelfmark:
Shelfmark
RIKB 8
Manuscript Title:
Manuscript Title
Biblia latina (Vetus Testamentum)
Caption:
Caption
Paper · I + 382 + I ff. · 21 x 29 cm · 1433
Language:
Language
Latin
Manuscript Summary:
Manuscript Summary
This Latin Bible contains the Books of the Old Testament (Octateuch, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Job and Maccabees). They are preceded by Jerome’s prologue to the whole of the Bible (in logical order: ff. 11, then 13-14r; the beginning is incomplete), by an excerpt from De doctrina christiana 2, 8-9 by Saint Augustine (f. 14) and by Jerome’s prologue to the Pentateuch (in the order: f. 14v then f. 9). Several leaves at the beginning have been lost or were not bound correctly; the manuscript currently begins with Genesis 19.26. The incomplete text of Genesis should be read in this order: ff. 9v-10, 15-16, 12 (Gn 10.30-19.26 are missing), 1-8 (Gn 31.28-36.19 are missing), 17-26r. Similarly there are defects at the end of the manuscript: the text is interrupted on f. 379v at 2 Maccabees 14.6. There are several errors in the modern foliation: 3 leaves between ff. 161 and 162 were not counted; the foliation jumps from f. 188 to f. 190, and there is a f. 256a. RIKB 8 has a blue initial with red pen flourishes (f. 9v), as well as several simple initials in red, in part with geometrical motifs (e.g. on ff. 69r or 112r). As we learn from the explicit on f. 227v, this manuscript was transcribed in 1433. It belonged to the Swiss entrepreneur Kurt Bösch (*1907 in Augsburg - † 2000 in Augsburg), bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts, who notably founded l‘Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Brämis/Sion (VS). In 2012, the UIKB donated several valuable books, including this manuscript, to the Médiathèque Valais. (esc)
DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
DOI (Digital Object Identifier
10.5076/e-codices-mvs-RIKB-0008 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-mvs-RIKB-0008)
Permanent link:
Permanent link
https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/mvs/RIKB-0008
IIIF Manifest URL:
IIIF Manifest URL
IIIF Drag-n-drop https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/mvs-RIKB-0008/manifest.json
How to quote:
How to quote
Sion/Sitten, Médiathèque Valais, RIKB 8: Biblia latina (Vetus Testamentum) (https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/mvs/RIKB-0008).
Online Since:
Online Since
03/22/2018
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Document Type:
Document Type
Manuscript
Century:
Century
15th century
Dated:
Dated
1433
Decoration:
Decoration
Initial, Ornamental, Penwork
Liturgica christiana:
Liturgica christiana
Bible
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