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[MANUSCRIPT LEAF -- BIBLE]. One leaf on vellum, in Latin. Germany, ca. 1425.
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[MANUSCRIPT LEAF -- BIBLE]. One leaf on vellum, in Latin. Germany, ca. 1425.
Written in a large Gothic hand, double column, one 2-line initial in red and blue with elaborate 15-line tracery
in the margin; one 6-line initial in red and blue with tracery. From Judges. The manuscript believed to be similar to the bible Johann Gutenberg used as a copy for his first Bible, printed Mainz, 1454.
Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc.