Bible
Information About This Item
Title
Bible
Date
1200 - 1299
Description
Contents: Beginning of the psalter, with Pss. 1-5 (recto), Frag 108r Contains end of Job.
Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Script: Gothic
Notes: Frag 108v Historiated initial of David playing his harp, to open the Psalter.
Decorations: Historiated initial, flourishings
Relation
M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 108
Source
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta108_45
Format
Parchment - 98 x 82 mm - Two columns with 42 visible lines, neither bounding lines nor ruling are discernable
Language
Latin
Type
manuscript fragment
Coverage
England