Testamentum Novum, cum Glossis Bedae, Hieronymi, et Gregorii

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Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney FF 0001

General Information

Title Testamentum Novum, cum Glossis Bedae, Hieronymi, et Gregorii
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Switzerland
Date of Origin 1101-1200
Persons Jerome
Script, Hands

Praegothica Script. 

General Remarks

Note from Otto Ege: The chief interest of this text is the interlinear glosses and commentaries from the writings of Bede, Jerome, Gregory, and other Church Fathers. They were inserted at various times during the following century around a central panel of the orginal text. All the hands are based on the revival of early carolingian minuscule. (This is Ege's terminology for Praegothica Script). This manuscript shows through marks of ownership that it was in Geneva for centuries. It is therefore probably that it was written in Switzerland. The colour and texture of vellum indicate XIIth century--often yellower than those of later date. 

Original Condition

Page Height 215 mm
Page Width 145 mm
Height of Written Area 157 – 170 mm
Width of Written Area 125 mm
Number of Columns 3
Width of Columns 27 – 50 mm
Number of Lines 20 – 55
Line Height 1 – 3 mm
Ruling no ruling visible
More about the Condition

Lines from new testament with three separate glosses and commentaries. 

Current Condition

Dimensions 215 x 145
More about the Current Condition

Some rows of writing are faded in light brown on verso. Tanning of paper in top and top right corner on recto. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Recto has one large P initial in dark brown consistent with the ink colour on all other lettering. Verso has several pilcorws in brown, and glosses have added numbers and abbreviations. The vellum is yellowed, brittle, and cut on all four sides, with some visible follicles. The leaf is lined in either lead or very light ink, but there's no ruling visible with the naked eye. The ink used for the text is brown with some fading. The gloss hands are different from both one another and from the Biblical text, and the Carolingian gloss hand has decorative brackets setting apart each section. Scribal corrections on this leaf include an erasure mark in the middle column on the verso.