A leaf from a grand Romanesque lectern Bible, in Latin [FRANCE (OR ENGLAND?), EARLY 12TH CENTURY] c.485x340mm , vellum, a single leaf, ruled in drypoint for 2 columns of 49 lines, the ruled space c.400x250mm, containing Ephesians 1:19–6:3 (recto: ‘[superemi]nens magnitudo … evangelistas alios au-’, verso: ‘tem pastores … sit tibi &’), in a very fine romanesque hand , with running headings ‘Ad’ and ‘ephesios’, the chapters numbered [ii]–xxiii, with initials alternately red or blue, recovered from use as a book-cover, thus darkened with surface dirt on the verso and with significant traces of paste on the recto, and with a few small holes, but still almost entirely legible
A leaf from a grand Romanesque lectern Bible, in Latin [FRANCE (OR ENGLAND?), EARLY 12TH CENTURY] c.485x340mm , vellum, a single leaf, ruled in drypoint for 2 columns of 49 lines, the ruled space c.400x250mm, containing Ephesians 1:19–6:3 (recto: ‘[superemi]nens magnitudo … evangelistas alios au-’, verso: ‘tem pastores … sit tibi &’), in a very fine romanesque hand , with running headings ‘Ad’ and ‘ephesios’, the chapters numbered [ii]–xxiii, with initials alternately red or blue, recovered from use as a book-cover, thus darkened with surface dirt on the verso and with significant traces of paste on the recto, and with a few small holes, but still almost entirely legible
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