Identifier:

1/XI/ITA/3.

Scope and content:

r-v: //dicit dominus vobis, nolite . . . templum interficiatur. Sintque cum rege// [2 Par. 20.15-23, 20.31-21.4, 21.14-22.3, 22.11-23.7].

Acquisition information:

Written in a scriptorium maintaining high standards, in Italy, in the Umbro-Roman region, to judge from script, abbreviations, and size. The fragment belonged to an Atlantic Bible (on Atlantic Bibles see E. B. Garrison, Studies in the History of Mediaeval Italian Painting , 4 vols. [Florence 1953-1962]): other fragments belonging to Atlantic Bibles are 1/XI/Ita/5, 1/XI/Ita/12, 2/XII/Ita/13. The fragment is damaged by water and rats. Used for binding in the sixteenth century: scraps of a sixteenth-century label pasted on the recto. Pen trials (s. XVI-XVII) by Italian hands on the verso.

Physical description:

Parchment, top portion of 1 leaf; 205 cropped × 295 (180 cropped, about one-half the original height, × 234) mm. 2 columns, of which 28 lines survive; double bounding lines enclose each column; drypoint ruling. Developed rounded Caroline minuscule script: and go below the line; and abbreviation marks are in the small 7-shape; script similar to 1/XI/Ita/4 and 1/XI/Ita/12; brown ink.

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