Jerome, Commentarius in Sophoniam 3:1-7, in Latin with a few words in Greek, manuscript on parchment [Germany, late tenth or early eleventh century] Single leaf recovered from a binding and hence with losses to blank margins at corners and midpoint, single column of 26 lines of a squat and square Romanesque bookhand, with a tongued 'e', a dotted 'y', a strong st-ligature and a pronounced lean to the right, folds, stains, small holes and discolouration on reverse concomitant with later reuse in binding (but loss of legibility for only 3 lines on reverse), overall fair condition, 260 by 190mm.; in modern cloth-covered binding Provenance: 1. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017) of California, his I/214; acquired by him from Joseph Rubinstein of San Francisco in October 1970 (with copy of the late Prof. Marvin Colker's report on the leaf for Rosenthal included here). 3. Quaritch cat. 1147 (1991), no. 80, sold to Martin Schøyen (his MS. 627) and thereafter kept in his London library. Text: This commentary on Zephaniah was written by Jerome between about 390 and 406 AD. It is first recorded in a manuscript of c. 800 (BnF., lat. 10,600) only a century or so before the present leaf.
Jerome, Commentarius in Sophoniam 3:1-7, in Latin with a few words in Greek, manuscript on parchment [Germany, late tenth or early eleventh century] Single leaf recovered from a binding and hence with losses to blank margins at corners and midpoint, single column of 26 lines of a squat and square Romanesque bookhand, with a tongued 'e', a dotted 'y', a strong st-ligature and a pronounced lean to the right, folds, stains, small holes and discolouration on reverse concomitant with later reuse in binding (but loss of legibility for only 3 lines on reverse), overall fair condition, 260 by 190mm.; in modern cloth-covered binding Provenance: 1. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017) of California, his I/214; acquired by him from Joseph Rubinstein of San Francisco in October 1970 (with copy of the late Prof. Marvin Colker's report on the leaf for Rosenthal included here). 3. Quaritch cat. 1147 (1991), no. 80, sold to Martin Schøyen (his MS. 627) and thereafter kept in his London library. Text: This commentary on Zephaniah was written by Jerome between about 390 and 406 AD. It is first recorded in a manuscript of c. 800 (BnF., lat. 10,600) only a century or so before the present leaf.
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