Biblia Sacra Vulgata
Matthew 26:38-45
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A Caroline minuscule written by a single hand.
Original Condition
Two halves of single leaf (each half approximately 154 x 104 mm) from a Bible.
Current Condition
The two parts of the leaf are used as front and rear flyleaves in the host volume. The front of the incunabulum contains the upper part of the leaf, the back, the lower. Given the width of the original page, the direction of reading is perpendicular to that of the host volume.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
No decoration.
Content
- Content Item
History
Host Volume
15th-/16th-century white stamped leather binding over wooden boards typical of the Kartause Ittingen.
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ISTC No.: ij00333000
Bibliography
On the host volume:
Luginbühl, Marianne and Heinz Bothien. Meisterwerke des Frühen Buchdrucks: Die Inkunabel-Schätze der Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittingen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 2011, pp. 320-21.