Item Info

Script: Italian transitional script
Language: Latin
Folio Number: ff. 6v-7r
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: At the end of the eleventh century, theologians began the process of collecting centuries of Biblical exegesis since patristic times into a single commentary on each book of the Bible. This process resulted in the "Glossa ordinaria," the Latin name for the ordinary or standard gloss of the Bible used by scholastic theologians to teach and explain the meaning of Scripture. This glossed manuscript contains only the Gospel of Mark. The complicated layout shown in this opening reflects the difficulties in matching the gloss to the passage in Scripture it was meant to comment upon. The two strikingly different scripts are used to distinguish Scripture (the large script) from the gloss (the smaller script).
Notes: Opening
Notes: This manuscript has been dated to ca. 1150.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1549925
Country: Country:Italy
Cardinal Point:northern

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1160
Image Dimensions Width: 232 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E 42