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Acts of the Apostles [Fragment] Public Deposited

Contents
  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // ueste regali sedit pro tribunali. Explicit: Et nos uobis annunciamus eam quam ad patres //. Folio range: [1]r-v
Rights statement
Time Period
  • Circa 1325
Place of Origin
  • Southern France
Related Work
Description
  • A leaf from a French portable Bible, bearing text from the Acts of the Apostles 12:21-13:32. Decorator notes are visible in the top margin. This book was broken by Otto Ege. Other leaves from the same original manuscript were included in Otto Ege's "Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries 1121-1935 AD" (Series A) portfolio.
Call Number
  • Curio 220.5 O69
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • bec_006_001
Keywords
  • France
  • Marginalia
  • Scripture
  • Bible
  • Christian
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Fragment
Title
  • Acts of the Apostles [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Page dimensions (in mm): 182 x 128. Written area (in mm): 117 x 80, column width 36-37mm. Line height (in mm): 3.6. Script: Gothic. Script type: Textualis. Layout: Two columns, ruled in brown ink for 32 lines. Double horizontal and vertical bounding lines. Number of columns: 2. Number of lines: 32. Decoration: Red and blue pen-flourished running heads. Red initial with purple penwork and red, blue, and purple linework extending along the left margin on recto. Capitals heightened in red
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • BCMSS06 (Grant item ID issued by Berea)
  • HL 61 (Gwara Handlist Number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
Date Created
  • 14th century
Owning Institution
  • Berea College Special Collections and Archives. Berea College. Berea, KY
Provenance
  • Item donated to Berea College by Ross Waters Sloniker of Cincinnati, OH in 1971.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Gwara, Scott. Otto Ege’s Manuscripts. Cayce, SC: De Brailes Publishing, 2013. [p. 140]

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