from a Romanesque Bible manuscript, in Latin, on parchment [France (probably the north), c . 1150-60] 8 cuttings, most with readings from the Old Testament: all different shapes and sizes, the largest 90 by 60mm., with 3-line initials in red, blue green and pale yellow with delicate multi-coloured floral infill often in facing or mirrored patterns, remains of lines in excellent and precise early gothic bookhand, with no biting curves, one with chapter number in red roman numerals, another with ornamental cadels in topmost line, and one long thin cutting with small initials in red, blue and pale yellow, in fine and presentable condition, framed These are the sister initials of those sold in our rooms, 8 July 2015, lot 17. These were Sotheby’s, 10 December 1996, lot 6 (illustrated full-page there), and identified as “not the Bible itself, perhaps Josephus”, presumably as the chapter number of one of these (and two of those in our previous sale) is inconsistent with the standard numbers for the Old Testament. They are, perhaps, in fact numbers taken from the capitula -lists which precede each book, and as such this must have been a transitional version of the text, in which its copyists attempted to harmonise the numbering of these prefatory lists with the sections of the main text.
from a Romanesque Bible manuscript, in Latin, on parchment [France (probably the north), c . 1150-60] 8 cuttings, most with readings from the Old Testament: all different shapes and sizes, the largest 90 by 60mm., with 3-line initials in red, blue green and pale yellow with delicate multi-coloured floral infill often in facing or mirrored patterns, remains of lines in excellent and precise early gothic bookhand, with no biting curves, one with chapter number in red roman numerals, another with ornamental cadels in topmost line, and one long thin cutting with small initials in red, blue and pale yellow, in fine and presentable condition, framed These are the sister initials of those sold in our rooms, 8 July 2015, lot 17. These were Sotheby’s, 10 December 1996, lot 6 (illustrated full-page there), and identified as “not the Bible itself, perhaps Josephus”, presumably as the chapter number of one of these (and two of those in our previous sale) is inconsistent with the standard numbers for the Old Testament. They are, perhaps, in fact numbers taken from the capitula -lists which precede each book, and as such this must have been a transitional version of the text, in which its copyists attempted to harmonise the numbering of these prefatory lists with the sections of the main text.
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