(Q17090)
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf from a 15th-century Bible : in Latin].
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Bible.
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Gourley, William Boyle, 1856-1935
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1450
15. century
1450Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 445 x 313 (304 x 198) mm
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Ms. leaf.
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In Latin.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Script: Northern textualis.
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Layout: 2 columns, 48 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink, vertical bounding lines full-length.
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Decoration: Two-line chapter initials in alternating blue letters with red pen flourishing and red letters with blue or black pen flourishing; each verse begins with the first letter faintly illuminated.
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Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
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Origin: Written in Germany in the mid-fifteenth century. Originally from a three-volume Bible (see provenance note)
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Provenance: With early corrections and marginalia. The complete Bible owned by William B. Gourley of Paterson, New Jersey (his sale in New York, 4 November, 1936, lot 73, to Otto F. Ege). See Scott Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, Handlist 150.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in 2000 from Dorothy Abbe.
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Call number: MS pb Med.271.
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4 December 2023
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