Manuscript leaf, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of Judges 5:5-6; 6:6; and 10:7-11:26. The leaf originally formed part of a manuscript known as the Werden Heptateuch.
Description:
Byname: Werden Heptateuch (Fragment)., Formerly owned by E. A. Lowe; Estelle Doheny. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 25 lines each., Leaf recovered from a binding., Script: Anglo-Saxon miniscule., and Small part of conjugate leaf still present.
Subject (Geographic):
Werden (Essen, Germany)
Subject (Name):
Doheny, Estelle,--1875-1958--Ownership., Lowe, E. A.--(Elias Avery),--1879-1969--Ownership., and Reichsabtei Werden.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of chapters 12 and 13 of the book of Job
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; a later hand has made some corrections., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials in brown uncials; running titles in brown rustic capitals; punctuation consisting of punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus.