Bible, Ezekiel, in Latin, in an early Carolingian minuscule, decorated manuscript on vellum [Tours (the abbey of St. Martin or Marmoutier), first third of the ninth century] large fragment of a leaf, 215mm. by 220mm., remains of 2 columns, 28 lines in brown ink in a fine and accomplished early Carolingian minuscule, most probably identifiable as one of the Tours scribes Fredegaudus or Theodegrimus (who copied fols.62r and 140v respectively of the Livy in Vatican, reg.lat.762, during the abbacy of Fridugisus, 807-34), initials touched in terracotta-red, small corrections, punctuation marks, underlining and chapter numbers added by a thirteenth-century hand in black ink, small spots, horizontal fold and staining to verso from reuse in binding, else good condition, hessian binding
Bible, Ezekiel, in Latin, in an early Carolingian minuscule, decorated manuscript on vellum [Tours (the abbey of St. Martin or Marmoutier), first third of the ninth century] large fragment of a leaf, 215mm. by 220mm., remains of 2 columns, 28 lines in brown ink in a fine and accomplished early Carolingian minuscule, most probably identifiable as one of the Tours scribes Fredegaudus or Theodegrimus (who copied fols.62r and 140v respectively of the Livy in Vatican, reg.lat.762, during the abbacy of Fridugisus, 807-34), initials touched in terracotta-red, small corrections, punctuation marks, underlining and chapter numbers added by a thirteenth-century hand in black ink, small spots, horizontal fold and staining to verso from reuse in binding, else good condition, hessian binding
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