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Cerethi and Phelethi in the Vivian Bible, folio 215v
Date: Between 845 and 851
Bibliothčque nationale de France, MS Latin 1, folio 215v.
The First Bible of Charles the Bald (Paris, Bibliothčque nationale de France, MS lat. 1) is a lavishly illuminated 9th-century manuscript Bible commissioned by Count Vivien, the lay abbot of St. Martin at Tours, and presented to Charles the Bald in 846 on a visit to the church. It is also known as the Count Vivian Bible or the Vivian Bible. It is 495 mm by 345 mm and has 423 vellum folios.
This is also understood to be the third illuminated Bible to have been made at Tours following the Bamburgh and Grandval Moutier bibles.
The Vivian Bible made in 845-846 at Tours is now in the Bibliothčque nationale de France.
6And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou therefore the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us." 7So Joab's men went out with him, and the Cerethi and the Phelethi: and all the valiant men went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri. (2 Samuel 20:6-7, Douay-Rheims Bible).
De virginitate sanclorum sive de Laude virginitatis by Aldhelm, first Bishop of Salisbury
XII. Primtus, ut dixi, principalium bis quaternos vitiorum duces, quibus Cerethi criminum et Pelethi facinorum cum horrendo belli apparatu mancipantur, divino freti suffragio vincere laboremus, qui contra tyronum Christi catervas et bellicosas Virginum cohortes truculentis inimicorum exercitibus cum innumera stropharum phalarica et densis deceptionum telis infatigabiliter certare non cessant, quamvis sępe patrocinium Christo pręstante, suorumque phalanges militum cum prędestinatę palma victorię cohortante, turpiter terga fugacia vertant.
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