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The Bible, in French, with glosses and commentaries intercalated as translated and arranged by Guyart Desmoulins, written early in the 14th cent.

With many miniatures, illuminated capitals, etc. This volume belongs to the class of 'Petites Bibles historiales' described by Berger, but this MS. is not mentioned by him in his Bible Française au Moyen Age (1884). It omits the Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, has the short form of Job, and adds to the Psalter the Parisian 'Lectanie en Francois': yet its version of Ps. 137 (136) is that of the Paris MS. de l'Arsenal 5056 (Berger, p. 208).288 leaves in…
Collection: Douce Manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Douce 212
Extents: 288 Leaves
Dates: written early in the 14th cent.