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Series consists of leaves from pocket Bibles, and a complete Ethiopian Coptic Bible.
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Item is an illuminated leaf from a French pocket Bible, likely from Paris. The leaf features text from the Book of Obadiah in minute Gothic miniscule script in two columns. The recto features an elongated whimsical creature (possibly a griffon?) between the two columns of text, and the verso contains a 6-line historiated initial depicting the prophet Obadiah seated and holding a scroll.
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Item is a leaf from a pocket Bible featuring what is likely a section of the Interpretationes Hebraicorum Nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an alphabetical list of proper names appearing in the Bible with a short commentary on their meaning, provided as an aid to scriptural study. This section covers I-M.
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Item is a leaf from an English pocket Bible containing verses 6-8 of the Book of Kings. The leaf was produced in Oxford in the workshop of the prominent illuminator William de Brailes. Leaf features illuminated initials and chapter numbers, crossed-out mistakes, and some marginal notes.
Tear on the bottom corner repaired with archival tape.
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Partial transcription provided by Charles Edwin Puckett.
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Item is a leaf from an English pocket bible containing verses 22:12-24:39 of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Leaf features illuminated initials and marginalia including a partial English translation of verse 24:1 ("Wisedome shall prayse herselfe and be honored in god and rejoyse in the middes of his people :". The leaf was produced in Oxford in the workshop of the prominent manuscript illuminator William de Brailes.
A partial transcription of the leaf reads: Beginning nequissimi enim...: "For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death... keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice... wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honored in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people and shall open her mouth in the churches of the most high, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power... he said to me: let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. From the beginning and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him..."
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Partial transcription provided by Charles Edwin Puckett.
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Item is a leaf from an English pocket bible, possibly from East Anglia, containing verses 10:30-12:41 of the Book of Mark. Leaf features illuminated initials and marginalia.
A partial transcription of the leaf reads: "Et sorores, et matres, et agros..." : "and sisters , and mothers, and children... the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many... Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord... My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations. But you have made it a den of thieves... Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's... And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like to it; thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself..."
Leaf was formerly part of the collection of Otto F. Ege, Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art; see handlist item #245 in Scott Gwara's "Otto Ege's manuscripts: A study of the Ege's manuscript collections, portfolios, and retail trade, with a comprehensive handlist of manuscripts collected or sold" (Cayce, SC: De Brailes, 2013).
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Item is an Ethiopian Coptic manuscript Bible with an accompanying leather carrying case. The codex consists of 140 goatskin parchment leaves, with text in Ge'ez (the liturgical language of the Ethiopian church) written in red and black ink, with occasional annotations throughout. The codex is illustrated with 9 full-page illuminations in colour, and 5 decorative headpieces in black, red, and blue. The binding is in traditional Ethiopian Coptic style and features wooden boards (the back board has been crudely repaired) and a leather spine.