Book of the Prophets Leaf

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Book of the Prophets Leaf

French, 1190

Language: Latin

Single leaf

ink and graphite on parchment
height 35 cm
width 24.5 cm

Portland Art Museum, The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, 80.122.552
Gift of Vivian and Gordon Gilkey

 

Wilma Fitzgerald, PhD, SP - Quoted with permission from an unpublished study

Vetus Testamentum. Habacuc 1, 15- 2, 7 cum commentario (unidentified). Saec. XII ex. France. One folio, trimmed, 350/325 x 245 mm., three columns. (28 x 45 x 44 mm.), 24 lines. Prickings visible. Occasionally the text extends across two or three columns as does the commentary. Leaf headed Abbacus and Propheta. Gift of Vivian and Gordon Gilkey.

// [Traxit illud in sagena] sua et congregauit in rete suo [suum] super hoc letabitur et exsultabit .../...  te et suscitabuntur laceran[tes te et eris in rapinam eis?] //

Comm.: // humanum interficere non cessat. Idolo quod fecit in campo Duram [Dura] cui quasi grandis sagene immolabit pingues uictimas .i. omnes gentes uictes. Oppinione [opinione] sua .../ ... Medi et Perse qui Babilonicum imperium destruentes prius mordebant postea lacerabunt quibus erit Nabuchodonoser in rapinam et uastator orbis spoliabitur apos//