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Item Description
Title / Supplied: Vulgate Bible
Source Document
Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 198 x 130 (133 x 82) mm.
Date Created: 1200 [inferred] - 1250 [inferred]
Physical Description
Layout: 2 columns of 50 lines, below top line; ruled in lead. Decoration: Running heads, chapter initials, and numbers in alternating blue and red. Littera Duplex initial "U" marks the beginning of the book of Isaiah. The flourishes of the initials form the left borders of the columns. Prologue explicit in red. Red letter strokes mark verse initials.
Binding
Not bound.
Script
Written in very small Gothic Textualis script. Verse 2:7 was omitted by a slip of the scribe's eye from one "eius" to the next "eius," and supplied at the head of the column and connected by a red bar in a different hand.
Description
Text is Jerome's prologue to Isaiah and Isaiah 1:1-3:3.
Genre(s): codices
Language(s): Latin
Place: [Italy?]
Note [Digital Version]
2010-04-05, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
Note [Provenance]
From the collection of Otto F. Ege.
Note [Incipit]
...vir nobilis et urbanae elegantiae
Type of Resource: text
Parent Collections
Access Conditions
Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the UVM Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives at cdi@uvm.edu. For more information, see http://cdi.uvm.edu/about/rights.
More information.
Permanent Link:
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/mrml010
Preferred citation
Vulgate Bible, Manuscript Leaves. Special Collections., Special Collections, University of Vermont Library, http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/mrml010 (accessed May 22, 2013)
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