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Liber machabaeorum : manuscript, [between 1450 and 1475]

Title
Liber machabaeorum : manuscript, [between 1450 and 1475]

Alternative Title: Bible. Latin. Vulgate Vulgate
Place of Origin
Germany
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 262 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.
print
Abstract
Partial Bible, containing in the following misbound order: 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse, prologue to Romans, as well as chapter lists to other books of the Bible, now missing.
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval-Germany-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Guide letters.
Catchwords.
Scribal corrections.
Notes
Written in southern Germany for an unidentified monastic house in a gothic cursiva formata script, with red initials at chapter divisions.
In a 19th-cent. black half-morocco binding with marbled endpapers.
In a protective tray case, 31 cm.
MS Lat 50. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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