Western Michigan University, WMU MS 152

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6426

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 152

Title:

Bible leaf, Genesis

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1090-1110

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment ; 275 x 161 mm.

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Parchment, single folio, written on both sides in two wide columns. Severely trimmed. Most of column a on recto and column b on verso are missing. Only the beginning lines of column b, verso, are visible. A thin strip torn from the bottom runs about ¾ of the width of the page. There is a slight vertical tear between the two columns. Slight rubrication in column b, recto. A few square capital...
Twelfth-century Italian portion of the opening folio from a monumental Atlantic Bible in Latin. Recto contains sections of Genesis 1:7-23 and verson sections of Genesis 1:26-2:15 and (only beginning words of each line) 2:24-3:12.
Produced in Italy ca. 1100. Folio is from a monumental Atlantic Bible, a production type originating in Rome and widespread throughout Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These oversized texts were called "Atlantic" in reference to the giant Atlas, and they probably had use as liturgical visual aids (De Hamel, 64-91).The roman numeral XII is written in pencil on the recto. "6007" on...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Bible. Genesis--Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4vcoc/01WMU_ALMA21348428310002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~877256~142081/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University