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- BIBLE: GENESIS 12:20 - RUTH WITH CAPITULA AND ONE ST. HIERONYMUS PROLOGUE
- ST. HIERONYMUS: CONTRA HELUIDIUM DE VIRGINITATE SANCTAE MARIAE
- ST. HIERONYMUS: AD EUSTOCHIUM FILIAM SANCTAE PAULAE DE VIRGINITATE SERVANDA
- BIBLE: 1 KINGS 8:20 - 22:53
- BIBLE: 2 KINGS 1:1 - 9:9
- BIBLE: JOB WITH 2 ST. HIERONYMUS PROLOGUES
- BIBLE: TOBIT WITH ST. HIERONYMUS PROLOGUE
- BIBLE: JUDITH WITH ST. HIERONYMUS PROLOGUE
- BIBLE: ESTHER WITH ST. HIERONYMUS PROLOGUE
- BIBLE: 1 EZRA WITH ST. HIERONYMUS PROLOGUE
- BIBLE: NEHEMIAH (2 EZRA)
- BIBLE: 1 & 2 MACCABEES WITH CAPITULA
- LECTIONS FOR THE FEAST OF ST. MARIA MAGDALENA
- BIBLE: PROVERBS 1:1 - 26:18 WITH ST. HIERONYMUS PROLOGUE
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Description |
MS in Latin on vellum, Roma, Italy, vol. 1 (texts 1-3): 2nd half of 9th c., 228 ff. (-8), 33x24 cm, 2 columns (25x17 cm), 35 lines in a very fine Carolingian minuscule by 2 scribes, 7 large decorated initials in intertwined leafy and strapwork design. Vol. 2 (texts 4-14): 2nd half of 11th c., 290 ff. (-ca. 40), 37x28 cm, 2 columns (from 25x17 cm to 31x20 cm), 21-37 lines in a late Carolingian minuscule by 9 scribes, 12 very large decorated initials in various styles, but usually in very elaborate interlaced vinestem designs of Ottonian style. |
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Context |
Vols. 1 and 2 of a 4 vols. Bible. Vols. 3 and 4 are lost. |
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Provenance |
1. Benedictine Abbey of Santa Cecilia, Roma (9th-18th c.); 2. Cardinal Antonio Saverio Gentili, Roma (1681-1753); 3. Principe del Drago, Roma; 4. Marchese Campana (until 1860); 5. Sotheby's 20.6.1860:130; 6. Boone, London (1860-1862); 7. Guglielmo Libri (1803-1869), (1862); 8. Sotheby's 25.7.1862:70; 9. Edwin Tross (1862-); 10. Enoch T. Carson, Cincinnati, Ohio, Cat. 1880:764; 11. Hamilton Cole (until 1890); 12. Bangs & Co, New York 7.4.1890:30; 13. Alfred Tredway White (1890-1919); 14. The Brooklyn Museum, New York (1919-1987); 15. Sotheby's 23.6.1987:72. Deaccession May 2010. |
