Details

Standardized Title:

Bible. Samuel, 2nd. Selections.

Subjects:

Absalom (Biblical figure).

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Vellum leaf from an Italian giant Bible, ca. 1125, trimmed and folded from use in a binding. The text on the recto is 2 Samuel 14.29-15.16 (part of the story of David's son Absalom; the page heading identifies the book as 2 Kings, as it was known in the Vulgate), written in a rounded Italian protogothic script, in 2 columns of 38 lines, with probably 4 lines lost at the bottom of each column due to trimming. The text on the verso is effaced. Running headings (Lib[er] on verso, Regu[m] II on recto) and a 2-line initial in red. A marginal roman numeral marks the beginning of Chapter 15 in the first column, and there is a guide letter to the left of the chapter number, but the initial has not been added.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 5 (2011), no. 10.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

86167205

Web link:

The Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund Home Page

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page