Binding: Not bound. Script, Fragment, recto and verso: Gothic. Layout, Fragment, recto and verso: Ruled in lead (?).
Former Owner(s):
This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.
by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
Note:
Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346. f. 1r-v: The fragment contains pieces of homilies on Ezechiel, the one attributed in the Patrologia Latina to Gregory the Great (PL 076:0879D on the darker side of the parchment), although the final 2 lines are not identified, and the other to Rabanus Maurus (PL 110:0560C-0560D on the lighter side of the parchment); this description quotes incipit and explicit from the side attributed to... Incipit, f. 1r-v: et per omnes vicos eius Alleluia cantabitur, hoc nobis carmen celestis patrie nuntiare cives eius venerant//. Explicit, f. 1r-v: //in hoc volumine scripta sunt lamenta, scindite corda vestra et non vestimenta vestra. Et rursus, Miseri estote et lugete. Risus vester in luctum convertatur.
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