Bible (Biblia Sacra Latina, Versio Vulgata). [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]
Date
1250
Date approximate?
yes
Creator
Ege, Otto F.
Subject headings
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Specimens;Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens;Illumination of books and manuscripts;Manuscripts, Medieval
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
These miniature or portable manuscript copies of the Jerome version of the Bible were nearly all written by the young wandering friars of the newly founded order of Dominicans. With almost superhuman skill and patience, and without the aid of eyeglasses, an amazing number of these small Bibles were produced by writing with quills on uterine vellum or rabbit skins. Many such Bibles were produced for students at the early medieval universities and were made in such large quantities that today they are easy to find. The precision and beauty of the text letters and initials executed in so small a scale, twelve lines to an inch, with letters less than one-sixteenth of an inch high, are among the wonders in book history.
France (Paris): Bible. Middle 13th C. Latin text; Minuscule Angular Gothic script.
Type
Text
Original format
manuscripts
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language
la
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts: Western Europe XII-XVI century Ege Descriptions
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID
Z6605.L3 E44_09
Digital master format
Image/tiff
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
