A Little Latin Vulgate Bible Manuscript Leaf in Princeton
November 26, 2025 in Manuscript Studies, Princeton University
A Little Leaf
at Princeton University Library
from a Miniature Latin Vulgate Bible
2 columns in 47 lines
[Posted on 25 November 2025]
Poster 3 for 2025 Autumn Colloquium. Workshops on “Fragments at Princeton”
For the recent 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments, our Associate Eric M. White presented a pair of Workshops on “Fragments at Princeton”, with a focus on “Books in Fragments / Fragments in Books”. The workshops took place in Special Collections of the Princeton University Library, in two sittings.
With a few variations in each workshop, the selected specimens considered a range of manuscript and printed materials. They included, for example, single manuscript leaves (or fragments thereof) on their own or manuscript fragments (single leaves or conjoint bifolia) reused as part of bindings, pastedowns, or endleaves for other texts.
For many of these specimens, Eric demonstrated their characteristics with a riveting commentary about the processes of discovery which brought them to Princeton or which enriched understanding about them once the curator or scholar came across them in the stacks or within their secondary homes in the form of composite codices mixing layers from different dates and places of production and different genres of books.
He presented some specimens of individual leaves as curiosities about which little is known — in case they might be recognized. About one of them I said that I thought I knew of another similar leaf.