Images: British Library
Other identifiers: the Bible of Richard II (though this is questioned); the Big Bible
Physical description: parchment, 630 × 430 mm, iii+350+iii fols., 2 cols.; multiple illuminations, including a nativity scene with Salome at the start of Matthew and a trial scene at the start of the Gospel of Nicodemus
Language: Latin
Date: 15th cent.
Provenance: London
Contents:
Gospel of Nicodemus (fols. 282r–286r)
Epistle of Pilate to Claudius (fol. 286r)
Healing of Tiberius (fols. 286r–286v)
Additional Contents: Vulgate Bible (Nicodemus follows the Gospel of John; Acts follows the epistles of Paul).
Catalogs and Studies:
Izydorczyk, Zbigniew. Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi: A Census. Subsidia Mediaevalia 21. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1993 (no. 157, pp. 85–86).
Millar, Eric G. English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Century. Paris: Van Oest, 1928 (pp. 31–32, 69–70, 87, pls 74–78).
Warner, George F., and Julius P. Gilson. Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections. 4 vols. London: British Museum, 1921 (vol. 1, pp. xi, no. 3, 21–22).
Wright, Sylvia. “The Big Bible Royal 1 E IX in the British Library and Manuscript Illumination in London in the Early Fifteenth Century.” PhD diss., University of London, 1986.
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 14 December 2021.