Two bifolia, conjugate but separate, manuscript fragments on parchment, c. 194 x 292 mm / c. 381 x 292 mm, with text from the Bible I Chronicles X-XIX
They are ruled in two columns of forty lines, (c. 210 x 150 mm) in gothic textualis script in brown ink, guide letters in brown ink in the margins, chapter headings in red, alternating red and blue three-line initials. Multiple blemish holes and sewn repairs to the parchment.
The text on the first leaf opens at the end of Chapter 10:13, ‘[mor]tuus e[st] [er]g[o] saul p[ro]pt[er] iniq[ui]tates suas.’ ‘Saul therefore died because of his iniquities.’ The final leaf ends on Chapter 19:5, ‘grande[m] [e]n[im] co[n]tumelia[m] sustinuera[n]t et p[rae]cepit ut mane[re]nt in’, ‘For they had endured a great insult, and he ordered them to remain in’.
A very good manuscript example. The outer margin has loss and darkened across the different bifolia, with some text impacted. Chips and nibbles to edges. Rippling to parchment due to exposure.
Biblia Sacra: A Fragment Of A 13th Century Bible
Author
[French Scribe]
Publisher
[Paris]
Date
[c. 1250-1350]
