Biblia vulgata
1 and 2 Kings
F-f545
General Information
Text written in a pre-carolingian cursive hand. Rubric added in capitalis elegans in the ninth century at the earliest.
Ganz (2016) has compared the the fragment to the now incomplete Gospel manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. lat 1063 and has argued that both were written in the scriptorium of Corbie. Both may be the remnants of a complete copy of the bible produced at Corbie for the cathedral of Beauvais.
Original Condition
The fragments are two double leaves, which originally were the first and the third bifolia of a quaternion.
Current Condition
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Pen-drawn initial on fol. [2]r
History
Copied in North-Eastern France, probably at the abbey of Corbie.
Host Volume
Ghent University Library purchased the two fragments in Brussels in the spring of 1980 from the heir of a bookbinder, who must have removed it from a volume he had to rebind.
Bibliography
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https://www.persee.fr/doc/scrip_0036-9772_1982_num_36_2_1270Derolez, Albert, ‘Fragment d’un nouveau manuscrit en écriture précaroline’, Scriptorium, 36 (1982), 236–38
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Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 290.
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https://doi.org/10.1484/J.RB.5.110624Ganz, David, ‘A Merovingian New Testament Manuscript and Its Liturgical Notes: Paris, BnF, Nouv. Acq. Lat. 1063’, Revue bénédictine, 126 (2016), 122–37 (p. 127-8, with the incorrect shelfmark HS.4501)
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https://doi.org/10.1484/J.MS.2.306329Bischoff, Bernhard, and Virginia Brown, ‘Addenda to Codices Latini Antiquiores’, Mediaeval Studies, 47 (1985), 317–66 (p. 328, no. 1827)