Item Info

Script: Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front 63:5
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Beginning of Nehemiah
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 Nehemiah, which tells of the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the end of the Babylonian Captivity. The historiated initial V that begins this book shows the meeting of Nehemiah and his brother Hanam, who told Nehemiah of Jerusalem's ruined state and prompted him to return to oversee the rebuilding.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1600029
Country: Country:Germany

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1399
Image Dimensions Width: 485 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 63:1-31