{"id":16851,"date":"2022-05-18T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=16851"},"modified":"2022-10-24T01:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:37:59","slug":"another-leaf-from-a-portable-manuscript-bible-in-the-collection-of-birgitt-g-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/another-leaf-from-a-portable-manuscript-bible-in-the-collection-of-birgitt-g-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Leaf from a Portable Manuscript Bible in the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Another Latin Bible Manuscript Leaf<br \/>\nin the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Single Leaf from a Latin Vulgate Bible<br \/>\nFolio &#8220;74[?]&#8221; with Part of the Book of Daniel<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Daniel 9:11 ([. . . <em>et declinaverunt<\/em> \/ ] <em>ne audirent<\/em>)<br \/>\n\u2013 11:30 (<em>et cogitabit <\/em>[ \/ <em>advesum eos . . . <\/em>])<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Double Columns of 56 lines<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Written in Gothic Script<br \/>\nwith Running Titles, Initials, Pen-flourishes, and Annotations<br \/>\nincluding a Modern Folio Number<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_16868\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16868\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16868 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-Daniel-X.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Vulgate Bible Manuscript Leaf purchased in London around 2000: Recto with opening of Daniel Chapter X.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[<em>Posted on 17 May 2022<\/em>]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16783\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16783\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16783\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/small-page-framed-leveled-cropped-more.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Framed Leaf from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 20&#8217;, Front-Facing Page (&#8220;Recto&#8221;).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16802\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16802\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16802 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/framless-large-4-29-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/framless-large-4-29-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/framless-large-4-29-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/framless-large-4-29-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/framless-large-4-29.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Framed Leaf from &#8216;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8217;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following our blogpost reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-ege-leaves-and-two-ege-labels-in-the-collection-of-birgitt-g-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Ege Manuscript Leaves and Two Ege Labels in the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez<\/a>, we learn of another leaf in the same collection, with a different provenance.\u00a0 Those two Ege leaves and labels pertain to three manuscripts dismembered and distributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Ege\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto F. Ege<\/a> (1888\u20131951).\u00a0 That is,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>with a leaf from &#8220;Otto Ege Manuscript 14&#8221; and its Ege Label,<\/li>\n<li>an Ege Label from &#8220;Ege Manuscript 54&#8221;, and<\/li>\n<li>a leaf from &#8220;Ege Manuscript 20&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They all pertain to books of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vulgate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin Vulgate Bible<\/a>, either as full Bibles in large or small format, or as the Book of Psalms in a separate volume (or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psalter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psalter<\/a>) in small format. They came to their collector in stages, by purchase at auction at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dallaslibrary2.org\/about\/history.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Dallas Public Library<\/a> in 1998, or as a gift in 2003 from its former Librarian, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lillian_M._Bradshaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lillian Moore Bradshaw<\/a> (1915\u20132010), with a mix-up at some stage between labels and leaves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16785 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/st-jerome-leaf-5-13-03-Label-for-Ege-54-with-Lopez-Small-Leaf-cropped-more.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"939\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/st-jerome-leaf-5-13-03-Label-for-Ege-54-with-Lopez-Small-Leaf-cropped-more.jpg 939w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/st-jerome-leaf-5-13-03-Label-for-Ege-54-with-Lopez-Small-Leaf-cropped-more-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/st-jerome-leaf-5-13-03-Label-for-Ege-54-with-Lopez-Small-Leaf-cropped-more-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/st-jerome-leaf-5-13-03-Label-for-Ege-54-with-Lopez-Small-Leaf-cropped-more-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/st-jerome-leaf-5-13-03-Label-for-Ege-54-with-Lopez-Small-Leaf-cropped-more-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 939px) 100vw, 939px\" \/>Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Otto Ege Label for &#8220;Ege Manuscript 54&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>The Next Leaf<\/h2>\n<p>The next leaf reaching our attention came from a small-format Vulgate Bible manuscript.\u00a0 In correspondence, Ernesto Lopez reports that he purchased the leaf in London, England, around the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The unframed leaf and its seller&#8217;s label tell the story of a pattern of transmission of a dismembered medieval manuscript leaf which, at some stage in transmission after dismemberment, lost a record of connection to the original book.\u00a0 Here we examine the label and both sides of the leaf, as revealed in the collector&#8217;s photographs, generously supplied for study and for presentation here to a wider world.<\/p>\n<h2>The Seller&#8217;s Label<\/h2>\n<p>With the leaf is a folded rectangular paper label with printed or print-out text in two halves above and below the fold-line which would permit the label to stand upright, say in a case or on a shelf.\u00a0 The upper half of the sheet, above the fold line, identifies the seller, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthegalleries.com\/dealers\/parthenon-gallery-1544.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parthenon Gallery<\/a> in London, purveyor of &#8220;Ancient coins, antiquities &amp; fossils&#8221;.\u00a0 This gallery is still located in the same place, at 25, Bury Place, WC1A 2JH.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16853 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0498-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0498-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0498-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0498-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0498-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0498.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Within a rectangular frame, the lower half of the label calls the specimen &#8220;Early Medieval&#8221;.\u00a0 Details cite the item as comprising &#8220;Illuminated manuscript pages [sic] from an early medieval bible written on vellum, with Latin written in a miniscule hand&#8221;; identifies the contents as part of the text of &#8220;I Machabees, relating the episode of &#8220;The Temple taken&#8221;; and dates the item to &#8220;Circa 1280 A.D. Not after 1300.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the frame, at the left, there stands the printed identifier &#8220;9037\u00a0\u00a0 R\u00a0 0&#8221;, in arabic-numbers-plus-letters (or-letter). \u00a0 At the right, layered pieces of gauze tape cover the price identifier, which is partly visible in show-through, beginning with the currency-identifier for pounds sterling (\u00a3).<\/p>\n<h2>The Leaf<\/h2>\n<h3>Side 1<\/h3>\n<p>To begin with, we saw a photograph of only one side.\u00a0 The cropped edges of the photograph do not offer indications of which side of the leaf it is, whether recto or verso.\u00a0 We decided to examine the image for what it might show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16852 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0497-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0497-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0497-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0497-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0497-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0497.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The Text<\/h2>\n<p>Despite the label, this leaf does not belong to any part of the First Book of Maccabees (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1_Maccabees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Maccabees<\/a>). Instead it has part of the text in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Daniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book of Daniel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The text on the page starts within Daniel 10:14 ([ . . . <em>sunt populo<\/em> \/ ] <em>tuo in novissimis diebus, quoniam adhuc visio in dies)<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The page ends in the middle of 11:30 (<em>et faciet: reverteturque, et cogitabit <\/em>[ \/ <em>advesum eos . . . <\/em>]).<\/p>\n<p>The enlarged initial signals the beginning of Chapter 11:1, which reads:\u00a0 <em>Ego autem ab anno primo Darii Medi stabam ut confortaretur et roboraretur<\/em>.\u00a0 Rendered in blue pigment, the initial <em>E<\/em> stands outside the column of text.\u00a0 Above and below the letter extend pen-flourishes in red pigment, which reach most of the height of the column. In places, the flourishes form the outlines of foliate motifs, sometimes branching, with rippled contours in some places.<\/p>\n<p>Show-through from the opposite side of the leaf indicates that a similar enlarged chapter-initial, with pen-flourishes, stands in the intercolumn, pertaining to a place in column b, about one-quarter of the way down its course.\u00a0 Chapter 12 would begin with an initial <em>I<\/em>:\u00a0 <em>In tempore autem<\/em> . . .\u00a0 Chapter 10 would begin with an initial <em>A<\/em>:\u00a0 <em>Anno tertio Cyri regis Persarum<\/em> . . .\u00a0 On the strength of those different letter-forms, it is tempting to guess that that opposite side of the leaf carries the last part of Chapter 9 and the first part of Chapter 10.<\/p>\n<p>Even the running title points to the Book of Daniel.\u00a0 Centered at the top of the page  , the bichrome red-and-blue capital letters designate the first part of the name:\u00a0 &#8220;DANI-&#8220;.\u00a0 Given the orientation, this portion of a bi-partite title on a verso would be complemented by the second portion on the formerly facing recto of the next leaf in the book.<\/p>\n<p>An addition in ink in the left margin supplies a missing word <em>confortare<\/em>, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcurrents.stanford.edu\/visual-element\/signes-de-renvoi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signe-de-renvoi<\/a> linking it with its place in the text, within Daniel 10:19<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>et dixit: Noli timere, vir desideriorum: pax tibi: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">confortare<\/span>, et esto robustus. Cumque loqueretur mecum, convalui, et dixi: Loquere, domine mi, quia confortasti me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The signes-de-renvoi take the form of an identical pair of triple dots in triangular formation in red pigment.\u00a0 One twin stands at the upper left of the correction.\u00a0 The other hovers in the interline at the place within the column of text where the insertion is to be supplied.\u00a0 A wash of red pigment enhances the bow of the somewhat enlarged letter <em>c<\/em>, like various minor text initials in the columns of text.<\/p>\n<p>At first, when I examined the photograph of this page, some features, including forms of the pen-flourishing, reminded me especially of a couple of Vulgate Bible manuscripts dismembered by Otto Ege and distributed in more than one of his several Portfolios of specimen leaves from manuscripts and printed books.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of manuscripts  , which I come on occasion to think of as &#8220;Otto Ege Manuscript 9 + Manuscript 54&#8221;, featured in my recent blogpost exploring the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/two-ege-leaves-and-two-ege-labels-in-the-collection-of-birgitt-g-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Ege Manuscript Leaves and Two Ege Labels in the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez<\/a>.\u00a0 Their numbers derive from the different positions of cataloguing the two manuscripts in Scott Gwara&#8217;s <em>Handlist<\/em> of Ege&#8217;s Manuscripts.\u00a0 They figure on the one hand as its Handlist <strong>Number 9<\/strong> (for its position among the numbered specimens in the <em>Fifty Original Leaves <\/em>Portfolio, or <em>FOL<\/em>) on the one hand; and, on the other, as its Handlist <strong>Number 54<\/strong> (for both versions of the <em>Original Leaves from Famous Books<\/em> Portfolio, respectively in <em>Eight<\/em> and <em>Nine Centuries<\/em>, or <em>FBEC <\/em>and <em>FBNC<\/em>).\u00a0 For citations, please see that earlier blogpost.<\/p>\n<p>The overlap or perhaps sometimes confusion between the two manuscripts results from the distribution of their respective specimens sometimes in <strong>FOL<\/strong> and sometimes in the versions of <strong>Famous Books<\/strong>  , as substitutions might arise in the course of assembling individual sets of one or other Portfolio.\u00a0 For example, the manuscript normally deployed for <strong>Number 9<\/strong> in <strong>FOL<\/strong> sometimes did service in <strong>FBEC<\/strong> or <strong>FBNC<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 The other manuscript sometimes or normally deployed instead for <strong>FBEC<\/strong> (as Leaf 1) or <strong>FBNC<\/strong> (as Leaf 2), has Gwara&#8217;s assigned <strong>Number 54<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If this seems complicated, welcome to the world of Ege Manuscript Studies!\u00a0 Fortunately, careful and precise examination of the individual cases can aid the process by bringing a strong dose of recognition of their specific characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Ege&#8217;s Labels for these two manuscripts, curiously interlinked or intermixed in Ege&#8217;s distribution patterns, identify them differently as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a Bible written written in France, specifically Paris, in the middle of the XIIIth Century (<em>FOL<\/em>), or<\/li>\n<li>a Bible written by Dominicans in Paris circa 1240 (<em>FBNC<\/em>)<br \/>\n\u2014 as seen above, in one of the Ege Labels in the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the two books Gwara prefers an attribution of &#8220;France, ca. 1250&#8221; (No. 9 for <em>FOL<\/em> and <em>FBEC<\/em>); and &#8220;Northern France, ca. 1250&#8221; (No. 54 for <em>FBEC<\/em> and <em>FBNC<\/em>), with cross-references between both numbers.\u00a0 Gwara&#8217;s list notes different numbers of lines for those two items, with script in double columns respectively of &#8220;53 lines&#8221; and\u00a0 &#8220;57 lines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The variation in numbers of lines per column and page in a single volume with closely-spaced text is not unaccustomed in small-format Vulgate Bible manuscripts of the period, so that the span of 56 lines on the Lopez Leaf under examination here, like some stylistic variations in script and pen-flourishes, need not in themselves rule out a possible association or connection with that Ege manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that the general resemblance only, without closer inspection, brings to mind rather similar manuscripts from Ege&#8217;s collection whose features I have been recently been surveying, in the quest to sort out the partly divergent evidence of the Ege Labels and Leaves with a Dallas Public Library in the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>More information comes to light on the other side of the leaf from London.<\/p>\n<h3>Side 2<\/h3>\n<p>Next, upon request, we could see the other side, revealing the full expanse of the leaf, insofar as it survives, and with a scale to indicate size.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16866\" style=\"width: 1380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16866\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-upright.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1370\" height=\"1480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-upright.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-upright-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-upright-948x1024.jpg 948w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-upright-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-upright-768x830.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1370px) 100vw, 1370px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Vulgate Bible Manuscript Leaf purchased in London around 2000: Recto with Scale.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This page shows some tell-tale features pertaining to the structure, location, and forms of use of the leaf within its former book.\u00a0 They include annotations which provide medieval references in ink in the outer margin and a modern folio number in pencil at the bottom right.\u00a0 The edge of the gutter, or stitching line, remains at the right-hand contour, while the wider expanse of the outer margin on the opposite edge appears to represent its full original extent.<\/p>\n<p>In that outer margin stand the blue Chapter numeral <em>X<\/em>; a mark designating the roman numeral <em>lvii<\/em> or <em>lxii <\/em>(&#8220;lvij&#8221; or &#8220;xlij&#8221;) opposite line 4 of the text; an abbreviated mark awaiting decipherment to its right; a vertical set of three marks at intervals down the page, in the form of triple dots in triangular formation atop a leftwards-curving tail (let&#8217;s cite it here as &#8220;;&#8221;); and the arabic numeral <em>74<\/em>,<em> 75,<\/em> or<em> 76<\/em>[?] in the lower outer corner.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the page stands part of of a bipartite running title in bichrome Gothic Capitals, forming the second half of the name for the Biblical Book of [<em>DANI<\/em>-\/]<em>EL<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, this side of the leaf is the original recto.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16867 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-enhanced-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-enhanced-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-enhanced-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-enhanced-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-enhanced-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Lopez-Collection-The-Other-Side-IMG_05062-cropped-enhanced.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/>Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez, Vulgate Bible Manuscript Leaf purchased in London around 2000: Recto.<\/p>\n<p>The text begins within Daniel 9:11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[11 Et omnis Isra\u00ebl pr\u00e6varicati sunt legem tuam, et declinaverunt \/ ] ne audirent vocem tuam: et stillavit super nos maledictio et detestatio qu\u00e6 scripta est in libro Moysi servi Dei, quia peccavimus ei.<\/p>\n<p>The marks opposite line 4 in the outer margin, <em>lvij<\/em> or <em>lxij<\/em>, plus a larger abbreviation to its right, might signal the passage for reading.\u00a0 The &#8216;;&#8217; markings at intervals opposite more lines lower down might be related to the readings from Daniel for the 21-day fast.\u00a0 See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/likeabubblingbrook.com\/daniel-fast-scripture-readings\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/likeabubblingbrook.com\/daniel-fast-scripture-readings\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652803901880000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0UhU_boTTTGly0dV4cXV1l\">https:\/\/likeabubblingbrook.com\/daniel-fast-scripture-readings\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The listed readings in that resource do not exactly line up with this version, but it is the closest which we have found so far.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Further research might identify which Vulgate Bible manuscript gave this specimen, somehow to reach the antiquary shop in London.\u00a0 As yet, it is unclear by which time and where the leaf acquired its modern folio number within the original volume, became separated from the book, and acquired its inventory number, selling price, and label, giving an attribution to a different text, and a particular passage, from a different Biblical Book in the Old Testament.\u00a0 We might assume, say, given the plural &#8220;pages&#8221; in the label, that its text was drafted to identify a group of specimens from the specific manuscript, laid out in an array from which a purchase might be selected.\u00a0 From them one, but not this one, could correspond to the specified passage about the Temple in I Macabees.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the formula which the label assigns to the date-range of the specimen, like the citation of &#8220;I Machabees&#8221;, will provide a clue to its former location in a source-manuscript, according with a form of identification not unlike some employed by, say, Otto Ege, in labeling the dismembered pieces for distribution and perhaps offering a selling-point.\u00a0 For now, we might begin to look for Vulgate Bible specimens in double columns of around 56 lines, with comparable dimensions, and with corresponding folio numbers, all of which are identified as dating from &#8220;Circa 1280 A.D. Not after 1300.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The modern folio number points to a different manuscript than the one which first came to mind when I saw a photograph from its &#8220;first side&#8221;, perhaps probably because that manuscript was fresh in mind.\u00a0 Some Ege manuscripts have modern folio numbers, entered before the books were taken to pieces.\u00a0 (See, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/more-leaves-from-otto-ege-manuscript-51\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Leaves from &#8220;Otto Ege Manuscript 51&#8221;<\/a>.) But not, apparently, any leaves from Ege MS 9 or MS 54.\u00a0 The quest is open.<\/p>\n<p>I invite your advice.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Do you know of more leaves from this manuscript?\u00a0 Do you recognize the hands of these scribes, artists, and annotators in other parts of this book or in other manuscripts?<\/p>\n<p>You might reach us via <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a> or our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Research-Group-on-Manuscript-Evidence-259443617456668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Facebook Page<\/a>. Comments here are welcome too. We look forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/category\/manuscript-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manuscript Studies<\/a> for more discoveries. Please visit its <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/manuscript-studies-contents-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents List<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Latin Bible Manuscript Leaf in the Collection of Birgitt G. Lopez Single Leaf from a Latin Vulgate Bible Folio &#8220;74[?]&#8221; with Part of the Book of Daniel Daniel 9:11 ([. . . et declinaverunt \/ ] ne audirent) \u2013 11:30 (et cogitabit [ \/ advesum eos . . . ]) Double Columns of 56 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[678,1],"tags":[2075,2074,2073,462,1452,2066,2067,2065,1461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16851"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17325,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions\/17325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}