Beinecke MS 604
Biblia latina, with Hieronymus, Epistola ad Paulinum, Prologi in Bibliam;
Remigius, Interpretationes nominum Hebreorum.  Paris, 2nd quarter of the
13th c.

Vellum. I + 439 f. 376 x 260 (235 x 140) mm. 2 columns, 56 lines, in lead
point; single bounding lines for columns, three sets (top, middle and
bottom of writing area) of three long horizontal rulings, double lines
along edge of outer margin and for running titles; punctures at top of
leaf.

   I-XXV^^12, XXVI^^12 (8 wanting), XXVII-XXXIII^^12, XXXIV^^4, XXXV^^8,
XXXVI-XXXVII^^12, XXXVIII^^7.  Catchwords usually occur on the verso of
the first and final folios of most gatherings; many have been erased.

Gothic textura script.

Two very large initials (f. 3v: I for Genesis with seven scenes of the
Creation above Virgin and Child; f. 319r: L for St. Matthew's Gospel with
the Evangelist at the bottom and Christ and His ancestors above), 81
smaller historiated initials, and 64 illuminated initials without human
figures.  Executed in the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier".  Numerous large
and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work.

Bound in German 18th-century vellum, dyed rose, over bevelled wooden
boards; spine gilt-tooled in compartments (the gilding worn); brass bosses
and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on upper cover; cartouche
containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto Cum tempore
fructus, on lower cover.

Provenance: Frieherr Johann Christoph Borzek-Dohalsky von Dohalitz aur
Wolssow, Burggraf des Koeniggraetzer (name and arms on front cover). 
Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Hatfield (bookplate); his sale at Sotheby's
5 April 1911, lot 146.  Bought of Maggs Bros. in 1934 by C.H. St. J.
Hornby (note on f. 1v reads M. 92, C.H. St. J. Hornby, Shelley House,
Chelsea, June, 1934).  Major J.R. Abbey, MS 3231 (bookplate).  Purchased
for Alan G. Thomas, Bookseller, on the Beinecke Fund, 19 Feb. 1979.

secundo folio: non intelligunt

Albert Derolez