An innovative feature of later medieval Bibles was an index of Hebrew
names, such as the alphabetical list seen at the end of this 13th-century
English Bible. Although alphabetical organization of literary subject
matter seems basic to us, its practice developed slowly during the Middle
Ages and was taken for granted only after the advent of printing.
Gift of William G. Mennen.
Vulgate Bible with Index. England, second half
of the thirteenth century.