Bible, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy (Tuscany, perhaps Florence), second quarter of the twelfth century] a very large bifolium, each leaf 528mm. by 365mm., double column, 50 lines in a fine rounded late Carolingian minuscule (praegothica textualis), Joel 2:5-end, Amos, prologue (Stegmüller 512, 13 lines only) and 6:11-end, and Obadiah, prologue (Stegmüller 516, 5 lines only), headings in red uncials, opening and closing of each book in uncials touched in yellow, two large decorated initials, one 6-line and one 11-line, both in yellow and burgundy-red with painted leafy foliage on multi-coloured grounds, the larger initial enclosing red interlacing panels within its body, minor wear and small stains from reuse as a wrapper for documents dated 1570, faded sixteenth-century notes on outermost pages
Bible, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy (Tuscany, perhaps Florence), second quarter of the twelfth century] a very large bifolium, each leaf 528mm. by 365mm., double column, 50 lines in a fine rounded late Carolingian minuscule (praegothica textualis), Joel 2:5-end, Amos, prologue (Stegmüller 512, 13 lines only) and 6:11-end, and Obadiah, prologue (Stegmüller 516, 5 lines only), headings in red uncials, opening and closing of each book in uncials touched in yellow, two large decorated initials, one 6-line and one 11-line, both in yellow and burgundy-red with painted leafy foliage on multi-coloured grounds, the larger initial enclosing red interlacing panels within its body, minor wear and small stains from reuse as a wrapper for documents dated 1570, faded sixteenth-century notes on outermost pages
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