Item Info

Script: Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front 63:9
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Beginning of Wisdom
Notes: These leaves seem to form a group because of the consistency of the leaf and text measurements and the ruling pattern; leaves are paginated with pencil numbers in the upper left-hand corner of each side of each leaf.
Notes: This leaf is from a set of thirty-one leaves that were cut from a single manuscript that once comprised a complete Bible.

This page begins the Book of Wisdom, which begins "love justice, you that are the judges of the earth" (Wisdom 1:1). The historiated initial D depicts King Solomon enthroned and holding a pair of scales to signify his reputation as a just judge.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1600029
Country: Country:Germany

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1399
Image Dimensions Width: 486 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 63:1-31