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Title: Miniature Manuscript Bible, ca. 1240
Creator: Ege, Otto F
Date Created and/or Issued: 1240
Contributing Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Collection: Early Manuscripts and Printed Book Leaves Collection
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Description: Caption: "Leaf from a Miniature Manuscript Bible, circa 1240 A.D.; The Latin Vulgate version, usually attributed to St. Jerome, is here executed in angular Gothic script, eleven lines to the inch, on finest vellum. These small portable Bibles were produced in great numbers by the Dominicans (1250-1275) in the early days of the Sorbonne. It has been calculated that in the year 1250, it would have taken the earnings of a day laborer for fifteen years to purchase a manuscript Bible of this type--Otto F. Ege."
Type: text
Identifier: 2aad899e-5e85-4175-a1c8-fed19370a6bb
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Language: Latin
Subject: Bible. Latin--Versions--Vulgate
Bible--Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Miniature books
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Source: Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Relation: Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. : collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege; BS399.L3 E33

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