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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30484

Shelfmark:

ege-09

Title:

Ege leaf 09: Vulgate Bible, France, circa 1535

Bible

Place:

France;Paris

France TGN

Paris TGN

Date:

1535 circa

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 17 cm x 12.5 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: flowers (motif); illuminations (painting); initials (layout features); pen-flourished initials; rubrics; rules (layout features); columns (layout features);
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 9. VELLUM LEAF FROM A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
FRANCE (Paris)
Middle XIIIth Century
Latin Text
Minuscule Angular Gothic Script
Bible
(Biblia Sacra Latina, Versio Vulgata)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
These miniature or portable manuscript copies of the Jerome version of the Bible were nearly all written by the young wandering friars of the newly founded order of Dominicans
With almost superhuman skill and patience, and without the aid of eyeglasses, an amazing number of these small Bibles were produced by writing with quills on uterine vellum or rabbit skins
No plausible reason has yet been advanced for such large scale production
They were used sparingly, as is evidenced by their still fine condition
Few people could afford to buy these volumes, which took the equivalent of two years' time to transcribe
Still fewer laymen could read or would dare to risk excommunication by the church
Pope Innocent III, some years earlier, had issued an edict forbidding the reading or even the touching of a Bible by persons not belonging to the clergy
The precision and beauty of the text letters and initials executed in so small a scale, twelve lines to an inch, with letters less than one-sixteenth of an inch high, are among the wonders in book history.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century

Keyword:

Bible

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/35

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:35/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University