farfel_n02_125_111

111
380F + $90.90
April '80
Paris - Mme Rossignol
quai St. Micheal

Bible - double manuscript leaf from a Latin Bible
containing part of Chronicles II (Paralipomenon2)
Chapters XIIII - XVII (page 131), XXV - XXVII (page 134)
(285 x 193 mm.)
Headings (PA, LIPO II), decorated capitals,
chapter numbers, + calligraphic marginal ornamentation
in alterating red + blue
The text is written in a Gothic book hand, much
abbreviated, in two columns of 53 lines each.
France, 13th C (early) - Anglo (Norman - Normandy,
French Gothicsouthern Italy + Sicily from the mid 11th C. ENglant united to Normandy until 1204 from 1066.)
to for cun for est (late by 1289)
to for nom (XCI I. 18) It is very difficult to distinguish between MSS from England + Nothrern France of this period.
crossing of tinonian at oign 7
turned in tail (backward swing of the final downstroke) of h, m + n
forked ascendence of b, h, l
medial g sign for con or cun generally Franch
2 shaped con sign (XVI I.4)
the susal abbrev sign for m, n, er, re is a z reclining on the
axis Z. This sign develops soon into a superscript 5 (ie >1218)
finishing stroke of z seldom joins the trunk of the letter
looped z following em o n a p
forked which does not go below the line - French cursve hand.

The practice of writing above the top line + the marking of
chapter numbers indicate that this was produced early in
the 13th C.
Tuling was usually executed on the open double folio, + the
times then ran across the mine border of the folio from
the end of one leat to the recto of the conjugate leaf.
-All scribes make mistakes from time to time in copying text in Bibles in
particular any corrections was sometimes porudly enclosed in red frame
in the margins in order to proclaim that the transcription had been systematically
checked for accuracy.