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<p>Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener 002. Rouen, France, Third quarter 15th century. This large manuscript is a fifteenth-century copy on parchment of the first volume of the Bible historiale complétée (Genesis-Esther), which was taken from the Bible historiale of Guyart des Moulins, together with Job, Psalms, the Gospels from the second volume of the Bible historiale complétée and  an otherwise unknown French translation of Revelation. The text of the French translation of the Vulgate Bible originated in the thirteenth century, and there are few extant manuscripts; this manuscript was produced in Rouen in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. It has text in two columns of bâtarde script, two large miniatures with full page borders at the Old and New Testament divisions, and thirty-three column miniatures with column borders at book divisions and divisions within the book of Psalms. The miniatures are the work of two different artists from the Workshop of the Master of the Échevinage de Rouen. In the early eighteenth-century, the manuscript was rebound by French bookbinder Jacques-Antoine Derome.
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<br>Subjects: Bible; 15th century; French</div>
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