A single leaf on parchment, c. 204 x 149 mm, containing Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum from a late-twelth or early-thirteenth century Bible.
 
This leaf is ruled in ink, c. 140 x 104 mm (ruled), for two columns of thirty-two lines with gothic script in dark brown ink, the tEXT IS ABOVE THE TOP LINE, rubrics, paragraph marks, and single line capitals in red ink, fine line fillers in red ink, five two-line initials in red or blue ink. Modern pencil notation to the lower corner of the verso, ‘M988.5’.
 
The text contains ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’, ‘Interpretations of the Hebrew names’, which appears at the end of the Bible in alphabetical order and is accompanied by an explanation for each name. This leaf contains names beginning with ‘S’. To the recto, the first name is ‘Sabaoth’, and finishes with ‘Salamihel’. A very good example of a Bible leaf, there are two blemishes in the parchment to the lower margin, slight discolouration and staining to the parchment, very slight cockling, small adhesive mark to the upper inner margin of the recto.
 
The Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum has been attributed to the Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton [d. 1228]. Langton is primarily known for his division of the Bible into chapters which is how the Bible is organised today. The Interpretations of Hebrew names commonly appears in copies of the Bible produced around c. 1230, with this version being the longer one (Stegmüller, Bibl., 7709).