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Title	Bible, France, mid 13th century, fragment.
Description	Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time. The leaf includes 49 lines of text in two columns with the text densely blocked on the leaves of finely shaved vellum to allow the entire Bible to be carried as one consecutive book in a single binding. The text is heavily abbreviated, in keeping with the practice of the time, with first letters of syllables or words followed by conventional strokes or crossbars. The text is from the first book of Kings, chapters XVII – XX. The development of standardized chapters evolved in the classrooms of Paris, Europe's earliest universities, in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. Known as Paris Bibles, these copies included the books in a set order, with 64 prologues, including several unique to the Paris Bible. This leaf is written in a formal Gothic book hand, Gothic Textura Quadrata, including contrasting colors of capitals in the running heads of the chapter's numeration and a calligraphic marginal ornament. The top edge of this particular leaf is cropped and mended with vellum on the top corner. Marginal annotations in two different hands are in the left and bottom margins of the verso.
Subject	Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France Manuscripts, Medieval Illuminations 1200-1500
Language Name	Latin
Language Script	Gothic Textura Quadrata
Place Original	Paris (France)
Date Original	1250?
Object Type	Illuminated manuscripts
Ornamentation	Two line initials are in alternating red and blue. Roman numeral chapter headings in margins and running title at top also are in alternating red and blue with flourishes.
Transcription/Translation	View side description (dropdown box at left) for a transcription and translation of the text.
Source	14.2 x 10.5 cm. vellum leaf from an illuminated manuscript (s.xiii mid). Item no. 2006.mss.03 in the Pzena Collection, University of Louisville Rare Books.
Citation Information	See http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/description/collection/mss#conditions for guidance on citing this item. To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file).
Collection	Illuminating the Manuscript Leaves
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/mss/
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Rare Books
Format	image/jp2
Ordering Information	To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://louisville.edu/library/archives/copying.html/. Please cite the Image Number when ordering.
Image Number	ULRB 2006.mss.03
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Title	Bible, France, mid 13th century, fragment - recto
Transcription/Translation	N[r]on rectis ergo oculis Saul aspiciebat / And Saul did not look on/ David ex die illa et deinceps P[r]ost di / David with a good eye from that day forward. The day after / em autem alteram invasit spiritus dei malus / however, the evil spirit from God came upon / Saul et prophetabat in medio domus suae / Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house / D[r]avid autem psallebat manu sua / But David played with his cithara / sicut per singulos dies T[r]enebatque Sa / throughout a single day Saul held / ul lanceam et misit eam putans / a spear in his hands and threw it / quod configere posset David cum pariete / thinking to strike David to the wall / e[r]t declinavit David a facie eius secundo / and David stepped aside away from him / E[r]t timuit Saul David eo quod esset Dominus cum eo / And Saul feared David so much because the Lord was with him / et a se recessisset. A[r]movit ergo eum / and was departed from himself. Therefore, Saul removed him / Saul a se et fecit eum super mille viros / from him and made him above a thousand men. / E[r]t egrediebatur intrabat in con / And he went out and came in before / spectu populi. I[r]n omnibus quoque vis suis / the people. David behaved wisely in all his ways / David prudenter agebat et Dominus erat / and the Lord was / cum eo. V[r]idit itaque Saul quod prudens esset / with him. Saul saw that he was exceedingly prudent / nimis, et coepit cavere eum. O[r[mnis / and began to beware of him. But all / autem Israhel et Iuda diligebat David. I[r]spe / Israel and Juda loved David. For he / enim ingrediebatur ante eos. D[r]ixit / came in before them / Saul ad David ecce filia mea maior / But Saul said to David: Behold! My eldest daughter / Merob ipsam dabo tibi uxorem tantummodo es / Merob, ber I give you to wife, only / to vir fortis et proeliare bella Domini / be a valiant man and fight the battles of the Lord / S[r]aul autem reputabat dicens N[r]on / But Saul said within himself, let not / sit manus mea in eo sed sit super illum / my hand to him, but let the / manus Philisthinorum A[r]it autem David ad / hand of the Philisthines be upon that. But David said to / Saul q[r]uis ego su[r]m aut quae est vita mea / Saul: Who am I, or what is my life / aut cognatio patris mei in Israhel ut fiam / or my father’s family in Israel in the manner that I should be / gener regis. Factum est autem tempus de / son-in-law of the King? But it came to pass / beret dari Merob filia Sual David da / at the time Merob, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David / ta est Hadrihel Molathitae uxor D[r]i / she was given to Hadrihel, the Molathite, to wife. / xexit autem Michol filiam Saul alte / But Michol, the other daughter of Saul / ra David E[r]t nuntiatum est Saul et / loved David. And it was told and / placuit ei D[r]ixitque Saul d[r]abo eam / it pleased him. Saul said: I will give her / illi ut fiat ei in scandalum et sit super / to him however, and the hand / eum manus Philisthinorum D[r]ixit ergo / of the Philistines may be upon him. Therefore, / Saul ad David i[r]n duabus rebus gener meus / Saul said to David: In two things you will be my son-in-law / eris hodie E[r]t mandavit Saul serv / today. And Saul ordered his servants / is suis L[r]oquimini ad David clam me / And spoke to David privately / dicentes E[r]cce places regi et ommnes servi / saying: Behold! You please the King and all his servants / eius diligent te N[r]unc ergo esto gener / love you. Therefore, now be the King’s / Regis E[r]t locuti sunt servi Saul in auri / son-in-law. And the servants of Saul spoke all / bus David omnia verba haec E[r]t ait David / these words in the ear of David. And David said: / N[r]um parum vobis videtur generum / It seems to you a small matter to be a King’s / esse regis E[r]go autem sum vir pauper / son-in-law? But I am a poor man / et tenuis E[r]t renuntiaverunt servi / and weak. And the servants / Saul dicentes huiuscemodi verba locutus David [r] / of Saul told him declaring: such words have David spoken / D[r]ixit autem Saul S[r]ic loquimini ad David / But Saul said: Speak to David / n[r]on habet necesse rex sponsalia nisi / The King has no desire of any dowry if not only / tantumcentum praeputia Philisthnorum / a hundred foreskins of the Philistines / [End of left column recto] ut fiat ultio de inimicis regis P[r]orro/ as being avenged of the King’s enemies. Now / Saul cogitabat tradere David in ma / Sa[r]ul thought to deliver David into the / nibus Philisthinorum c[r]um renuntiassent / hands of the Philistines. When / servi eius David verba quae diximus / his servants had told David the words that / Saul placuit sermo in oculis David ut / Saul had said the conversation was pleasing in the eyes of David / fieret gener regis E[r]t post dies pau / to be the King’s son-in-law. And after a few days / cos surgens David abiit / David rose away / cum viris qui sub eo errant et percus / with the men that were under him and he slew / sis Philisthim ducentis viris et / of the Philistines two hundred men and / adtulit praeputia eorum et adnumeravit ea / bringing their foreskins and had numbered them / regis ut esset gener euis D[r]edit itaque ei / out to the king to be his son-in-law. Therefore, Saul gave him / Saul Michol filiam suam uxorem Et / Michol, his daughter, to wife. And / vidit Saul et intellexit quia Dominus esset cum / Saul saw and understood that the Lord was with / David Michol autem filia Saul diligebat / David. But Michol, the daughter of Saul, loved / eum Et Saul magis coepit timere David / him. And Saul began to fear David / factusque est Saul inimicus David cunctis diebus / more, Saul became David’s enemy continually / E[r]t egressi sunt principes Philisthin / And the princes of the Philistines went forth: / orum a principio autem egressionis eorum / but from the beginning of their / prudentius se gerebat David quam omnes / going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than all the / servi saul Et celebre factum est nomen ei / servants of Saul and his name became / nimis [chapter 19] L[r]ocutus est autem Saul / exceedingly famous. But Saul spoke / ad Ionathan filium suum et ad omnes / to Johnathan, his son, and to all his / servos suosut occiderent David porro / servants that they should kill David. Moreover, / Ionathan filius Saul diligebat David / Johnathan, son of Saul, loved David / valde et indicavit Ionathan David / exceedingly and Johnathan told David / dicens Q[r]uaerit Saul pater meus occidere / saying: Saul, my father, seeks to kill / te Q[r]uaproter observa te quaeso mane / you. Wherefore, look to yourself, I pray you, in the morning / and marebis clam et absconderis / and you should remain in a secret place and keep secret / E[r]go autem egrediens stabo iuxta pa / But I will go out, standing by my father / trem meum in argo ubicumque fueris et ego / in the field where are you and I / loquar de te ad patrem meum et quodcumque / will speak of you to my father and whatsoever / videro nuntiabo tibi L[r]ocutus est ergo / I will see, I will tell you. Therefore, Jonathan spoke / Ionathan de David bona ad Saul patrem / good things of David to Saul, his father / suum D[r]ixitque ad eum ne pecces rex in / He said to him: Sin not, King / servum tuum David quia non peccavit tibi et opera eius / against my servants, David, because he had not sinned against you and his / bona sunt tibi valde E[r]t posuit animam / works are exceedingly good towards you. And he puts his life / suam in manu sua et percussit Philis / in his hand and slew the Philistines / theum et fecit[r] Dominus salutem magnum / and the Lord renders great salvation / universo Israhel V[r]idisti et laetatus es / for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced it. / Q[r]uare ergo peccas in sanguine innoxio / Therefore, why would one sin against innocent / inter ficiens David qui est absque culpa Q[r]uod / blood, killing David, who is without fault? When / cum audisset Saul placatus voce Io / Saul heard this, he was calm with words / nathan iuravit vivit Dominus quia non occi / of Jonathan swearing: As the Lord lives, he will not be slain / detur. V[r]ocavit itaque Ionathan David / Then Jonathan called David / et indicavit ei omnia v[r]erba haec e[r]t in / and told him all these words: and / troduxit Ionathan David ad Saul et fuit / Jonathan brought David to Saul and / ante eum sicut ferat heri et nudius tertius / he was before him as he had been yesterday and the day before / M[r]otum est autem rursus bellum e[r]t egressus / But the war began again, and / David pugnavit adversus Philisthim / David went out and fought against the Philistines. /
Citation Information	See http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/description/collection/mss#conditions for guidance on citing this item. To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file).
Collection	Illuminating the Manuscript Leaves
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/mss/
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Rare Books
Format	image/jp2
Ordering Information	To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://louisville.edu/library/archives/copying.html/. Please cite the Image Number when ordering.
Image Number	2006.mss.03r

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