Western Michigan University, WMU MS 153

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6425

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 153

Title:

Bible leaf, Deuteronomy

Place:

Belgium

Belgium TGN

Date:

1250-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 500 x 356 mm.

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Single leaf, Parchment, 500 x 356 mm (330mm x 210mm), double columns, 33 lines, ruled in plummet. Written in Littera Gothica Textualis Formata, or a high grade Textura.
Decoration: In the middle of column B there is a single five-line initial h in blue with red penwork details infilled with blue squiggles, and red and blue decorations trailing up and down the column. Above the initial, the sixth book of Deuteronomy is indicated by Roman numerals in red and blue. The abbreviation DEV (Deuteronomy) appears at the top of the page. Larger versal initials are...
Deuteronomy 5:22-6:25.
Flanders or Southnetherlands, possibly Tournai. For other leaves from the same manuscript (all with text between Leviticus 14 and Judges 16) see Manion, Vines and de Hamel, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, p. 93. Probably broken by Erich von Scherling (Scherling, 102; History of Western Script, 55). Von Sherling's source seems to have been a bound fragment...

Keyword:

detached leaves

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Bible. Deuteronomy--Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Initials

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4vcoc/01WMU_ALMA21348428280002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222495~160206/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University