(Q42873)

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Folio Bible, fragment
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Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 180 x 270 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Gothic.
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Layout: In two columns originally each of 39 lines with no more than two lines missing in the fore-edge column; ruling barely visible, doubtless in plummet.
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Span folios: f. 1r-v.
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Lacking the upper and fore-edge margins, with some loss of text, apparently trimmed with scissors to remove water-stained areas.
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Assigned Date: s. XIII/XIV.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
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Francis Fry (1803-86), Quaker, biblical bibliographer, and chocolate-maker, of Bristol, on whom see ODNB, and David D. Hall, "Francis Fry, a Maker of Chocolate and Bibles," in The Book Trade & its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, edited by Arnold Hunt, et al. (New Castle, Delaware, 1997), 265-77. Inscribed "This leaf was taken from a Bible written on velum [sic] in the...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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