Bible, Genesis (fragment).

Description

Title: Bible, Genesis (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1150 and 1199].
Publication Place: France or Switzerland
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Genesis and Jerome's Epistula ad Paulinum
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in two sizes of gothic bookhand (littera textualis).
Decoration: the preface on fol. 2r begins with a 10-line decorated initial "D" in red interlace on a green geometric ground with a blue ground for the central portion of the vine stem; the text of Genesis begins with a half-page decorated initial "I" in the same style; 1-line initials in the prefatory material are occasionally red; line fillers are in red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; accents added by a later hand; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Provenance: The fragment was used as the outside wrapper for the binding of another volume; gift of the Yale University Library Associates; purchased from Kraus in 1948.
Extent: ff. 1-2 : 422 x 340 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Switzerland 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bible. Genesis
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
France > 12th century
Switzerland > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Bible, Genesis (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.