Miscellaneous manuscripts (Large), ca. 1125

Name:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1125

Description:

Vellum leaf from an Italian giant Bible, ca. 1125, trimmed and folded from use in a binding. The text on the recto is 2 Samuel 14.29-15.16 (part of the story of David's son Absalom; the page heading identifies the book as 2 Kings, as it was known in the Vulgate), written in a rounded Italian protogothic script, in 2 columns of 38 lines, with probably 4 lines lost at the bottom of each column due to trimming. The text on the verso is effaced. Running headings (Lib[er] on verso, Regu[m] II on recto) and a 2-line initial in red. A marginal roman numeral marks the beginning of Chapter 15 in the first column, and there is a guide letter to the left of the chapter number, but the initial has not been added.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 5 (2011), no. 10.

Relation:

The Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366241; The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366213

Subject:

Absalom (Biblical figure)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

fragments (object portions); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.; In Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Misc Mss (Large) Box 1 Folder 8

Collection:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund