<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Bible</dc:title><dc:date>approximately 1240-approximately 1250.</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands</dc:description><dc:description>In Latin.</dc:description><dc:description>Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands.</dc:description><dc:description>Layout: double columns of 55 lines.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: gothica textualis.</dc:description><dc:description>Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>