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17th-century binding. Rebacked. Fully bound in calf leather over pasteboards with matching decoration to the front and rear covers. Covers are each decorated with a blind double-fillet frame inset from the perimeter of the boards by c. 5mm. Head, fore, and tail edges of the boards decorated with a gilt single fillet.<\/p>

The volume has been rebacked, probably in the 19th century. The replacement back has 7 raised bands, each with a gilt dotted single-fillet across the centre of the band (i.e., across the width of the spine). Spine compartments are decorated along their upper and lower perimeters with a gilt single-fillet. Upper and lower openings of the spine are each decorated with a gilt double-fillet.<\/p>

Head and tail bands sewn in alternating segments of blue and cream yarn around a core of ?animal-derived cord. <\/p>

Title label \"BIBLIA HIERONYMI\" of Russia leather; the perimeter of the label decorated with two concentric frames: the outer frame a triple-fillet tooled in gold, the inner frame a simple foliate roll.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "

One of the manuscripts of Richard Holdsworth (1590-1649), Master of Emmanuel College. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Codex: ii, 6 | 431 | 20 | 7, i leaves." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "Wellcome" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

This manuscript is a composite volume and comprises a complete copy of the Bible written in Latin and made in England in the first half of the 13th century, accompanied by four later quires of exegetical material that helped readers to understand the text of the Bible. These quires include Stephen Langton's Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum<\/i> ('Interpretations of Hebrew names') and Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi<\/i> ('Compilation of history in the genealogy of Christ'). They were probably copied in the late 14th or early 15th centuries in England and were presumably incorporated into the volume soon after their creation.<\/p>

MS Dd.8.12 is one of the last examples of the 'Giant Bibles' produced in the Romanesque decorative style in England in the Middle Ages. The latter half of the 12th century was the high-point of Giant Bible production in England, and the surviving volumes are characterised by their generous dimensions, their preference for the pandect format (i.e., the whole text of the Bible in a single volume), and their exquisite decorative schemes, which made extensive use of opaque polychrome illustration, historiated initials with the figures and scenes typically enclosed in rounded frames, and frequent use of gold as a ground and as a decorative embellishment. Famous giant bibles include: