Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Pregothic. Layout: Gatherings of 8 leaves, but the last is of 2. Traces of catchwords survive in quires 2-6; modern pencil quire signatures. Up to 28 lines of gloss (written "above top line") or 14 lines of biblical text, in two columns; prickings in all four margins; ruled in plummet for two columns of text bounded by pairs of verticals ruled the full height of the page, of the horizontal lines the 1st... Span folios: ff. 1-88v. Other Decoration: Colored penwork, marking pre-Vulgate divisions of the text. Assigned Date: s. XIIex. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009. Written doubtless at and for a monastic library, as suggested by the texts and the mediocre parchment. On f. 4, s. XVI, "Sum hoptouni[?] & amicorum suorum." "The Property of a Gentleman", sold at Sotheby's, 29 March 1944, lot 666; bought by Maggs. "The Property of a Gentleman", sold at Sotheby's, 14 March 1949, lot 144, bought by Bond. Foster William Bond (1901-81), philatelist; sold by order...
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