#manuscript leaf

Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion in an Initial D, from a Book of Hours, Northern French, 1350

Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 31 - Glossed psalter leaf

Sometimes what we have is only a fragment!

This is a leaf from a glossed psalter probably written in France between 1150 and 1175. The page is ruled in lead with 6 vertical bounding lines marking the left and right limits of the outer marginal gloss column, the central text column, and the inner marginal gloss column. The Bible text is Psalm 77.59-72. The marginal glosses are written at about half the size of the Bible text and are largely passages from Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos, somewhat condensed. Each verse begins with an initial in red.

‘Saint Julianus and his Wife’ ( 1510 - 1520 ).

Tempera colours, gold, and ink on parchment by Master of James IV of Scotland (Flemish, before 1465 - about 1541).

Image and text courtesy The Getty.

LJS 36 -  Manuscript leaf from an account of the Jewish Wars

Used as a binding fragment, this leaf stems from a large manuscript written in a Romanesque script in Italy in the 12th century. It is severely damaged at both the top and the left edges. 

LJS 36: Manuscript leaf from an account of the Jewish Wars

This leaf is from a large manuscript written in a Romanesque script in Italy in the 12th century. Ruled in lead for 2 columns of at least 50 lines, the leaf is damaged at both the top and the left edges, with roughly half of the inner column missing. Water and worms have both damaged the leaf. 1 2-line initial in red on verso. The leaf was later used as a binding fragment. It contains text describing the conquest of Ptolemais by Alexander, son of Antiochus II, an event also described in the Book of Maccabees.

LJS 255 Manuscript leaf from De casibus virorum illustrium.

Partial leaf from a mid-15th century copy of Laurent de Premerfait's second translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium, from the chapter on Theseus (10.1-17), beginning with the rubric Le Xe chappitre contient le cas de Theseus, roy dathenes, Et commence ou latin Athene. Written in lettre bâtarde by a single hand in France, possibly Paris, in 2 columns, bottom of the leaf missing, 48 lines extant out of approximately 60, frame-ruled in lead. Decorated on the recto with an unfinished (outlines and touches of color) 26-line miniature depicting the suicide of Phaedra in the larger upper section and Theseus in exile in Cyprus in the smaller lower section.

LJS 309 is an interesting papyrus leaf that denotes a guarantee by Nakhtnebef, son of Pamerour of Memphis, to Hor, son of Padiousir the brewer, that he will pay back the value of one-fifth of the brewery in Meidum (40 deben or 200 staters) within two days if called upon, pledging his house and possessions as collateral.

This contract dates all the way back to 200 B.C.

‘The Gazelle Becomes Friends with the Crow, the Mouse, and the Tortoise.’

Ink and watercolour (18th century).

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna. Attributed to Egypt or Syria.