Binding: Not bound. Script, f. 1r-v: Gothic. Layout, f. 1r-v: Ruled in lead. Biblical concordance in 6 columns, i.e. 3 sets of two related columns: the first with the biblical book, chapter and a-g division; the second with the revelant quotation from the Bible.
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: On the recto the words are: vagus, -a, -um; validus, -a, um; valide; valenter; valde; on the verso, words are: vallis, -is; vanitas, -atis; valva, -ae; vanus, -a, -um. Incipit, f. 1r-v: Proverbia xii a, qui autem ma// liberabit eos; Proverbia xxi a, qui congregat [thesauros lingua mendacii] vanus//. Explicit, f. 1r-v: //vestri vagi non erunt in deserto [Numbers 12:33, although without "non"], //[cond]uxit sibi viros inopes et vagos [Judges 9:4].
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