Bible, glossed
Information About This Item
Title
Bible, glossed
Date
1250 - 1275
Description
Contents: Contains part of Act; main text has gloss; none on the prologues.
Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Script: Gothic
Condition: Parchment is very thin
Notes: Very clear Latin
Decoration: Historiated initials, 1 recto with zoomorphic interlace and gilt, 1 verso historiation of Ascension and gilt, 2 flourishings
Relation
M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 055
Source
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta055_45
Format
Parchment - 334 x 212 mm - Two columns with 47 lines, bounding lines, 5 mm between columns, with outer on recto 4 mm on right, on verso 4mm on left, and double bounging lines 2.5 mm from center for initial, lead ruling on recto and verso (ruled seperately)
Language
Latin
Type
manuscript fragment
Coverage
England, Canterbury