Item Info

Script: Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: ff. flyleaf-1r
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Beginning of Jerome's prologue to the Bible
Notes: The thirteenth century saw the development of small, portable Bibles. Romanesque Bibles had been large-format, grand productions. In order to create an easily carried, single-volume Bible the script became extremely small. In this example, the scribe wrote ten lines to the inch.

This page contains Jerome's prologue to the Bible, which begins the manuscript and is found at the beginning of most Bibles from this period. On the left-hand page is the ex libris of George W. Fitzwilliam of Milton Hall, Peterborough, who owned the manuscript in the early twentieth century.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1583568
Country: Country:England
City/Town/Township:Oxford ?

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1250
Image Dimensions Width: 232 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E 31