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Bible single leaf (MS M.798).

Accession number
MS M.798
Object title
Bible single leaf (MS M.798).
Display Date
8th century.
Created
France, 8th century.
Description
1 leaf (2 columns, 28 lines) : vellum ; 340 x 260 mm
Provenance
From the library of the Benedictine abbey at Admont, Austria (stamp on lower right margin of recto); purchased from Goldschmidt of London in 1937.
Notes
Ms. single leaf from a Bible; written in France, possibly at Luxeuil, in the 8th century.
Text: Jeremiah XVII.17 to XVIII.9.
Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.825 is another leaf from this Bible--Cf. PML files.
See the "Catalogue of twenty western illuminated manuscripts from the fifth to the fifteenth century from the library at Donaueschingen," 1982, p. 17-19 for illustrations of other leaves from this Bible--Cf. PML files.
Matted; formerly in red niger folder.
Script
Luxeuil-type minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification