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Scope and Contents ff.iii + 355, foliated i-xi, 1-347. f.347 verso was pasted down. ff.i-xiii are parchment end-leaves. 233 x 162 mm; text size 150 x 90 mm; 2 columns, 63 lines. Medieval binding of wooden boards covered with white skin: four bands.Collation: of ff.1-347; 1-28(12), 29(4) (ff. 337, 338, 346, 347) + 7 leaves inserted after 2 (ff.339-45). Art. 2a-d in a good secretary hand. Initials: (i) f.1, in colours on decorated grounds; (ii) to books, prologue no. 285, and the usual eight psalms,...

Scope and Contents ff.ii + 472 + ii; 151 x 112mm; text size c.110 x 76mm; 2 columns 44-49 lines, on parchment bound in gilt morocco.Collation: 1 fifteen (ff.472, 1-14) 2-20(16), 21(16) + 1 leaf after 16 (f.390), 22(16), 23(14), 24(10) + 3 singletons (ff.366, 368, 369), 25-28(16), 29(16) wants 16 after f.285, 30(16) wants 2 after f.302 and 15, 16 after f.314: for the present order of quires 18-30 see below. Initials blue with red ornament: several sizes. Capital letters in the ink of the text marked with...

Scope and Contents f.ii + 292 + ii; 140 x 95mm; text size 95 x 63mm; 2 narrow columns, 44 lines, in a 14th century binding, covered in red velvet.Quires usually of 20 leaves: three still complete are ff.48-69 (numbered IX on f.48), 170-89, 260-79. Written in small, clear hands. Initials: (i) to books (but only those on f.59 verso, 173, 260 verso, 290 have escaped removal), red or blue on decorated blue grounds; (ii) to prologues, 3-line or more, red or blue with ornament of the other colour; (iii) to...

Scope and Contents ff.ii + 378 + ii. Smooth parchment. 191 x 125mm; text size 125 x 78mm; 2 columns (3 cols. in art. 3). 52-56 lines; bound in 14th century binding lettered on spine: ‘Gassa/Scanz/N’.Collation: 1-19(12), 20-21(14), 22(10), 23-29(12), 30(6), 31 three (ff.357-59), 32(12), 33(8) wants 8, blank. Three very small hands, changing at ff.181, 279: the writing by the first two scribes has tended to fade on flesh sides a reduced facsimile of ff.123 verso-124 in "The Library", 5th...

Scope and Contents ff.iii + 98 + iii; 233 x 152mm; text size c.160 x 135mm; 20 lines, in a 14th-century binding. Collation: 1-12(8), 13(2). Catchwords. Ruling with a hard point. There is no ruling for the commentary apart from vertical bounding lines. In the hand of the text 'f' and 'r' are often descenders. The commentary is in a different hand, very small and neat. Initials: (i) f1, an 'I' in penwork, Christ stands blessing; (ii) 1-line, red with a little ornament of the same colour. Secundo...

Scope and Contents ff.ii + 225 + ii; 127 x 92mm; text size 63 x 45mm; 11 long lines on parchment in 18th-century binding, stamped in gilt on the backstrip ‘UFF./B.M.V/M.S’.Collation: 1-8(10), 9(10) wants 8 after f.87, 10-20(10), 21(8), 22(10), 23(8). Initials: (i) green and red on gold and blue grounds, historiated, with prolongations in gold and colours: eight in art. 1 (f.1, B.M.V. and child; elsewhere, saints), one before art. 4 (upper part of a skeleton), and one in art. 6 (f.200 verso: Christ, arms...

Scope and Contents ff. I + 55; 205 x 170mm; text size 178 x 146mm; 31 lines in text, 26 lines in preface, on pale azure paper bound in rough brown paper.Collation: 1-6(8), 7(7) (f.55 is a singleton).Apparently compiled by Eiríkr Magnusson who saw the 1863 New Testament (Oxford: BFBS; DM 5500) through the press, and was afterwards appointed sub-librarian at Cambridge University Library. Prior editions were the 1827 New Testament, Videyar Klaustri, Iceland BS, and the 1841 Bible, which included a...

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ff. I + 40 + I; 157 x 110mm; parchment, bound in boards covered with white skin.
Collation: 1-4(10). Book marks for each book of the Bible. Each page contains ten pictures, each picture representing a chapter. Captions in abbreviated Latin (peculiar abbreviations) for each picture.
A copy of half of a Pictorial Bible discovered in the Tyrol. The original is said to be dated 1312.
Entered in Bullen.

Scope and Contents ff.25 + iv. A late medieval foliation of ff.1-25 runs 181-6, 188-98, 201-4, 207-10. 152 x 105mm; text size 110 x 75mm; 2 columns, 29 lines on ff.1-17 and 34 lines on ff.18-25. In a contemporary binding of wooden boards covered with white leather: three bands: two clasps now missing fastened from the back to the front cover.Collation: 1(12) wants 7, 2(6), 3 eight (ff.18-25, four bifolia probably sheets 3-6 of a quire of 7 bifolia). Quires 1, 2 numbered at beginning and end ‘14’ and...