The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47749

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9623

Shelfmark:

mssHM 47749

Title:

Folio Bible, fragment

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1290 and 1310

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 180 x 270 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: In two columns originally each of 39 lines with no more than two lines missing in the fore-edge column; ruling barely visible, doubtless in plummet.
Span folios: f. 1r-v.
Lacking the upper and fore-edge margins, with some loss of text, apparently trimmed with scissors to remove water-stained areas.
Assigned Date: s. XIII/XIV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
Francis Fry (1803-86), Quaker, biblical bibliographer, and chocolate-maker, of Bristol, on whom see ODNB, and David D. Hall, "Francis Fry, a Maker of Chocolate and Bibles," in The Book Trade & its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, edited by Arnold Hunt, et al. (New Castle, Delaware, 1997), 265-77. Inscribed "This leaf was taken from a Bible written on velum [sic] in the...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861847

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53286/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens