F: Stemma in the Foigny Bible
Notes
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 15177, fols 2v-11r.
Late 12th century, comprising nine full-page spreads, in a late Carolingian script, parchment, 51.5 x 36.5 cm.
This version is an evolution from the Zeta type, (sole witness: first quarter of the 11th century) where an earlier editor had rewired the layout to explain the two ancestries of Jesus according to the Levirate Marriage theory, had appended typological glosses to some of the names and had added a passage from Rufinus. Now a further stratum develops, adding some 6,000 words of biblical commentary in Latin, mainly by Isidore of Seville, with shorter passages from Augustine of Hippo and Gregory the Great.
Given siglum F by Piggin.
The codex
Contained in the first of four volumes of a large-format, illuminated Vulgate Latin bible which was made at the Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame de Foigny (others are BnF Latin 15178, Latin 15179, Latin 15180). Parchment, this volume comprises 190 folios. Previously owned by Cardinal Richelieu and later the Sorbonne.
Related
Three other bibles containing the Ι recension:
Ff: England, London, British Library, Ms. Add. 17737, Floreffe Bible, fols. 24v-32v (ι1, dated 1155)
Pa: England, London, British Library, Ms. Add. 14788, Parc Bible, fols. 198v-207r (ι2, dated 1148)
B: Spain, Burgos, Biblioteca Pública del Estado, Ms. 173, Burgos Romanesque Bible, fols. 1v-8v (ι4, third quarter of the 12th century)
The matches between the pages of the four bibles of the Iota type are as follows:
| Foigny | Parc | Floreffe | Burgos | Diagram | Epitome |
| 2v | 198v | 24v | 1v | Adam: protoplastus homo sive terrigena... Malalehel | Hos duos filios habuit ... omnia in omnibus |
| 3r | 199r | 25r | 2r | Iareth: filius Malaleel; descendens sive roborans | Enoch qui translatus est ... mentiuntur. |
| 3v | 199v | 25v | also 2r | Noe: filius Lameth; deximus ab Adam; | Iam et illud quod post ... Christi mortem subsannaverunt. |
| 4r | 200r | 26r | 2v | Sem: filius Noe, Sem nomitatus Christi gerens | Ideoque fiat Cham ... insinuat atque manifestat. |
| 4v | 200v | 26v | 3r | Falech: filius Heber, divisio | Promittur Abrahe semen ... legitime utatur. |
| 5r | 201r | 27r | 3v | Abraham: filius Thare, patriarcha | Dixit Deus ad Abraham ... Mansiones 1-14 ... tempus admimpleatur. |
| 5v | 201v | 27v | 4r | Ysaac filius Abrahm Risum sive gaudium + Vixit Iob post plagam + Seir Lothan-Ane | |
| 6r | 202r | 28r | 4v | Edom qui interpretatur sanguineus (remainder of Seir + Rex/dux series) | Sed postquam hec dixit ... periisse de mundo. |
| 6v | 202v | 28v | 5r | Lia's six sons | Reveniente Iacob de Mesopotamia ... sit fidei portus. |
| 7r | 203r | 29r | 5v | Zelfa, Rachel, Balla + Per hunc iudam verur confessor exprimit | Per hunc Iudam ... prophetarum et sanctorum. |
| 7v | 203v | 29v | 6r | Levi - Moses -Joshua | Fiat Dan coluber in via ... suscepit Christum. |
| 8r | 204r | 30r | 6v | Remainder of Judges, Saul | Dedit dominus Israel post duces ... scripsit beatus Augustinus. |
| 8v | 204v | 30v | 7r | David-Solomon | Et quem ab Abraham usque ... Mansiones 15-27 ... pergent. |
| 9r | 205r | 31r | 7v | Rehoboam-Ahaz + Prophets I + Ab hinc regnum ... ub soboam atque in Iheroboam | |
| 9v | 205v | 31v | 8r | Ezech-Zacharias + Prophets II (Iherimias qui interpretatur excelsus domini ...) | |
| 10r | 206r | 32r | also 8r | Salatiel | Ab isto Sedekias ... Mansiones 29-42 ... mutum. |
| 10v | 206v | 32v | 8v omits Epitome | Sadoch-Eleazar + restored Luke | Ad novum testamentum qui ... Christi nunc. |
| 11r | 207r | 33r | also 8v | Mathan genuit Iacob + Sicut Lucas evangelista per Nathan |
Bibliography
Piggin, Jean-Baptiste. Isidore's Old Testament Commentary: An Unknown Epitome. ResearchGate. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29135.69281
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