Manuscripts

London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS Sion L40.2/L4 Latin Bible

  • Latin, Irish
  • s. xiii
  • Irish manuscripts, English manuscripts
  • parchment
A Latin bible, produced in England or perhaps in Ireland. Irish verses are found on f. 375/376v.
Identifiers
Location
Collection: GB 109 Sion L40.2: Sion College manuscripts
Shelfmark
Sion L40.2/L4
Type
bible books
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Irish
Date
s. xiii
Origin, provenance
Origin: EnglandEngland
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Ireland
Ireland
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ass. with Dominican friars
Dominican friars
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England or perhaps Ireland if that much can be deduced from the addition of Irish quatrains on f. 376v. Ker notes that the sanctorale includes, in addition to the names of English saints, the name of Dominic rather than Francis, suggesting perhaps a Dominican origin or provenance for the manuscript.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
parchment
Dimensions
20.8 cm × 14.5 cm
Foliation
2 ff. (ff. 1-2) + 375 ff. (ff. 3-377)
Table of contents
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Texts

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Locus

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  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
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  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23
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Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Lambeth Palace Library, Online: Lambeth Palace Library, ?–present. URL: <https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org>.

Secondary sources (select)

Lambeth Palace Library, Online: Lambeth Palace Library, ?–present. URL: <https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org>.
Based chiefly on Ker’s description. direct link
Ker, N. R., Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. 1: London, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
Internet Archive – On loan: <link>
267–268 [‘Arc. L. 40. 2/L. 4’]
OʼSullivan, Anne, “Leabhair an Bhíobla: mnemonic verses on the canonical order of the books of the Bible”, An Sagart 7:3–4 (1964): 34–35.
Bernard, Edward, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae: in unum collecti cum indice alphabetico, Oxford, 1697.
Internet Archive: <link>
167 [id. 4083.] Brief notice.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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March 2022, last updated: December 2023