Pocket Bible
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Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Library, BS399.L3 E33
Otto F. Ege, Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries 1121-1935 A.D., c1940, no. 2 (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)
General Information
Title
Miniature Manuscript Bible
Material
vellum
Place of Origin
Paris, France
Date of Origin
ca. 1240 A.D.
General Remarks
The Latin Vulgate version, usually attributed to St. Jerome, is here executed in angular Gothic script, eleven lines to the inch, on finest vellum. These small portable Bibles were produced in great numbers by the Dominicans (1250-1275) in the early days of the Sorbonne. It has been calculated that in the year 1250, it would have taken the earnings of a day laborer for fifteen years to purchase a manuscript Bible of this type. A leaf book containing a title leaf and 38 individually matted original leaves excerpted from Bibles, with a printed explanatory caption on each.