Ambrosiaster, Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti, two fragments from leaves from a monumental decorated Carolingian manuscript, in Latin, on vellum [France or Low Countries, tenth or early eleventh century] two tall strips, cut vertically from two leaves, 313mm. by 65mm. and 335mm. by 65mm., with remains of 36 lines in dark brown ink in a fine Carolingian minuscule with pronounced st-ligatures and some archaic capitals, chapter headings “XIII” and “XI” in terracotta red on recto, one simple red 3-line initial on verso (perhaps added later), first fragment preserving 10mm. of upper margin, second fragment with 42mm. of lower margin, loss of only a few letters from edge of each column (thus original leaf double column, at least 355mm. high, and probably c.190mm. wide), recovered from the binding of a copy of Quintilian, Declamationes, printed in Paris in 1542 by Simon de Colines, and with some scuffs, folds and small areas of damage, glued at edges to a card
Ambrosiaster, Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti, two fragments from leaves from a monumental decorated Carolingian manuscript, in Latin, on vellum [France or Low Countries, tenth or early eleventh century] two tall strips, cut vertically from two leaves, 313mm. by 65mm. and 335mm. by 65mm., with remains of 36 lines in dark brown ink in a fine Carolingian minuscule with pronounced st-ligatures and some archaic capitals, chapter headings “XIII” and “XI” in terracotta red on recto, one simple red 3-line initial on verso (perhaps added later), first fragment preserving 10mm. of upper margin, second fragment with 42mm. of lower margin, loss of only a few letters from edge of each column (thus original leaf double column, at least 355mm. high, and probably c.190mm. wide), recovered from the binding of a copy of Quintilian, Declamationes, printed in Paris in 1542 by Simon de Colines, and with some scuffs, folds and small areas of damage, glued at edges to a card
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