Bible (fragment)

Description

Title: Bible (fragment)
Contributor: St. Albans Abbey.
Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
Published / Created: [ca. 1330]
Publication Place: [France],
Abstract: Manuscript leaf, on vellum, in a single hand, of part of the book of Ecclesiasticus (Sirach).
Description: Decoration: Three illuminated initials with bar borders; illuminated chapter numbers.
Layout: double columns of 46 lines each.
Manuscript Bible originally given to St. Albans Abbey by Michael of Mentmore (-1349). Leaf previously owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Script: gothic.
Extent: 1 l. : parchment ; 292 x 197 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--France--14th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): St. Albans Abbey.
Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Bible (Fragment). Takamiya MS 87.