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Miniature Manuscript Bible, ca. 1240

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Title	Miniature Manuscript Bible, ca. 1240
Contributors	Ege, Otto F.
Date Range	circa 1240
Description	Caption: "Leaf from a Miniature Manuscript Bible, circa 1240 A.D.; The Latin Vulgate version, usually attributed to St. Jerome, is here executed in angular Gothic script, eleven lines to the inch, on finest vellum. These small portable Bibles were produced in great numbers by the Dominicans (1250-1275) in the early days of the Sorbonne. It has been calculated that in the year 1250, it would have taken the earnings of a day laborer for fifteen years to purchase a manuscript Bible of this type--Otto F. Ege."
Note	Leaf has rubrics, penwork flourishing, and red and blue initials.
Physical Description	1 vellum leaf; 15 x 12 cm
Genre	Illuminated manuscripts; Bibles
Subject	Bible. Latin--Versions--Vulgate; Bible--Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Miniature books; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Repository	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Title	Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. : collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege
Collection Number	BS399.L3 E33
Identifier	sc_mspt000170001
Object Identifier	sc_mspt00017
Copyright	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Type	Text
Format	image/tiff
Language	lat

Title	Verso
Repository	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Title	Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. : collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege
Collection Number	BS399.L3 E33
Identifier	sc_mspt000170001
Object Identifier	sc_mspt00017
Copyright	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Type	Text
Format	image/tiff

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