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Item No: mcai080091
Additional Title: Bible
Script: Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Leaf with an excised initial
Notes: This leaf has fallen victim to an earlier collector who prized only the historiated initial and cut it out of the leaf. The missing initial marked the beginning of the deutero-canonical Book of Judith and most likely contained the scene of Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1557565
Country: Country:France

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1299
Image Dimensions Width: 224 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 8:9

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