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Auction archive: Lot number 4

Carolingian Bible fragment, in Latin

Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$19,232 - US$25,642
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 4

Carolingian Bible fragment, in Latin

Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$19,232 - US$25,642
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Carolingian Bible fragment, in Latin [GERMANY, 9TH CENTURY (EARLY?)] c.360x220mm , vellum, an incomplete leaf ( one side cropped with the loss of the margin and a few mm of text ), ruled on the verso for 2 columns of 33 lines, with double vertical rulings to each side of each column, the horizontals not crossing the intercolumnar space except for the top and bottom line, the ruled space c.270x175mm, the text comprising I Chronicles 26:21–27:5 (‘[Le]dan principes … in fastos regis’), with at least four interlinear corrections/emendations (e.g. above 27:11 ‘de filiis Jemini’, here spelled ‘Gemini’, is added ‘stirpe’), with a red chapter number ‘xxi’ between the columns adjacent to 26:30; both double and single ‘i’ have occasionally been dotted, perhaps in the later 12th or 13th century; recovered from use as a binding, with spine-titles dated 1608 and 1610, with consequent traces of glue on the recto and wear and darkening on the verso, and wear/erasure of the ‘spine’ area, but with very little loss of text and almost entirely legible

Auction archive: Lot number 4
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Carolingian Bible fragment, in Latin [GERMANY, 9TH CENTURY (EARLY?)] c.360x220mm , vellum, an incomplete leaf ( one side cropped with the loss of the margin and a few mm of text ), ruled on the verso for 2 columns of 33 lines, with double vertical rulings to each side of each column, the horizontals not crossing the intercolumnar space except for the top and bottom line, the ruled space c.270x175mm, the text comprising I Chronicles 26:21–27:5 (‘[Le]dan principes … in fastos regis’), with at least four interlinear corrections/emendations (e.g. above 27:11 ‘de filiis Jemini’, here spelled ‘Gemini’, is added ‘stirpe’), with a red chapter number ‘xxi’ between the columns adjacent to 26:30; both double and single ‘i’ have occasionally been dotted, perhaps in the later 12th or 13th century; recovered from use as a binding, with spine-titles dated 1608 and 1610, with consequent traces of glue on the recto and wear and darkening on the verso, and wear/erasure of the ‘spine’ area, but with very little loss of text and almost entirely legible

Auction archive: Lot number 4
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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