Manuscript fragment on parchment (damaged). The one side has fine drawings of a king and queen (with falcon) in elaborate robes. Beside them is a foot soldier in armor; below a warrior on horseback, in armor, pursued by an archer, without armor. Above is a centaur (Chiron?) shooting an arrow at a flying bird, a second bird on the ground. On the other side (much affected by paste) three warriors storm a tower.
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Removed from Marston MS 89 where it was used as a front pastedown. and See catalogue entry for Marston MS 89.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Matthew, containing portions of chapter 25 (Parable of the Talents).
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Contained in Zi +237 (Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri, Commentarii in Valerium Maximum), in which the fragment has been used as a spine support., Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., and Script: written in an unidentified script.
Manuscript on parchment, composed of three parts, of Petrus Riga, Aurora, Biblia Versificata (a Latin verse translation of the Bible). Parts I and III in the same format and possibly from the same manuscript.
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Binding: Nineteenth century, Belgium. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with the Arenberg arms on the sides. Title on spine: "Sacrae Scripturae excerptae/ Circa 1225-50". Remains of old fore-edge tabs., Parts I and III: Red initials, plain or with modest designs throughout. Headings in red often added to right of text. First letter of each verse stroked in red or ochre, often by drawing a single line the length of the written space. Part II: Plain initials and headings in red throughout., Presented by Otto Rauschberg in 1956 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1-72 and 113-136): Copied by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand, with first letter of each verse usually aligned on the second vertical bounding line. Part II (ff. 73-112): Written by multiple scribes in a larger module and a neater gothic script than that in Parts I and III; each verse is justified by the placement of the final letter along outer vertical ruling. Script has often been retraced.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Judges.
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Decoration: alternating red initials with blue penwork and blue initials with red penwork; initials heightened in red; roman numerals in blue and red indicating chapter numbers., In Latin., Script: written in a late pregothic bookhand., and These fragments are contained in Zi 3612.6 (Gianantonio Sangiorgio, Sermo de passione...), around which they are used as wrappers.
Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome, and interpretations of the Hebrew names.
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Binding: 19th century: calf over cardboard; both covers and spine, in six compartments, gold-tooled. Purple silk doublures., Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome; interpretations of the Hebrew names: Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, with additions in the margins and at the end; an alphabetical list of words with explanations and/or ethymologies; a table of Epistles, Gospels and other readings for the ecclesiastical year: Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of the Saints; and a list, in two columns, of the kings of Juda and Israel., and Script: probably copied by one hand in extremely small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Perlschrift). Article 3 is by a contemporary hand. Numerous historiated initials of various sizes with long vertical extensions.
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry; many leaves repaired) of a collection of Saints' lives. The manuscript can probably be attributed to an Augustinian house of Canons Regular in the ancient region of Lotharingia.
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Binding: Fifteenth century (?), Flanders or France. Wooden boards with a faint rectangular panel design on each board; fastenings may be later additions? Original sewing on double cords. Remains of tawed skin saddle stitched around the tail endband and brown leather added at the head. Paper pastedowns and flyleaves added later. Traces of corner fittings from an earlier binding on first and last parchment leaves., Purchased from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston., Red and medium blue split initials with penwork designs in red and/or blue on ff. 3r, 107r, 194r, 217v; red and/or blue initials, most lacking penwork designs, appear for major text divisions; initial on f. 139r in red and yellow. Numerous smaller initials in green, red, blue and sometimes yellow, a few with simple void designs or in ink of a contrasting color. Rubrics throughout, some written perpendicular to text when there was insufficient space. Numbers and initial letters for chapter lists in red, blue, yellow and/or green. Remains of guide letters and notes to rubricator., and Script: Written by multiple scribes in early gothic book hand, above top line; an early hand has sporadically added running headlines and some notes in lead.
Manuscript on parchment of text of Ezra and Nehemiah. With Glossa ordinaria, both in margins and between lines of text.
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Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Plain vellum wrapper., Lower half of f. 62 repaired with contemporary (?) parchment., and Script: Written in two sizes of neat French minuscule by a single scribe; text written either above or below top line and gloss below top line.