Book of Daniel (fragment).

Description

Title: Book of Daniel (fragment).
Published / Created: approximately 1000-approximately 1099
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Daniel, Chapter 3, verses 22-36.
Description: In Latin.
Script: Beneventan minuscule.
Two fragments from a manuscript on parchment, used, together with a few other small fragments of Latin manuscripts, for reinforcing the binding of a printed book: Marcus Marullus, De institutione bene beateque vivendi libri sex (Solingen, Iohannes Soter, 1540).
Binding: the 16th century binding, now detached, is plain parchment over pasteboard, sewn on three split leather thongs. On the spine is written in large Gothica Textualis Formata, the title “Marc. Marulus +”; on the lower edge in Capitalis: “M. Marull.”
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bible. O.T. Daniel
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Book of Daniel. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.