{"id":20997,"date":"2025-12-17T23:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=20997"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:05:52","slug":"a-sister-leaf-from-a-miniature-latin-vulgate-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-sister-leaf-from-a-miniature-latin-vulgate-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sister Leaf from a Miniature Latin Vulgate Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sister Leaf
\nfrom a Miniature Latin Vulgate Bible:
\nFragments at Princeton<\/h1>\n

2 columns in 47 lines
\nMeasurements
\nLeaf maximum circa 121 mm high \u00d7 82 mm wide
\n<Written area circa 90 \u00d7 57 mm><\/h2>\n

[Posted on 16 December 2025<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Poster 3 for 2025 Autumn Colloquium. Workshops on “Fragments at Princeton”<\/p><\/div>\n

For the recent 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments<\/a>, our Associate Eric M. White<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0The Princeton University Leaf\u00a0 came from a set of three boxes of manuscript fragments, which had little or no information about their sources.<\/p>\n

Now we introduce another leaf which I believe came from the same manuscript. Do you agree?<\/p>\n

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A Small-Format Vulgate Bible Leaf
\nFragments at Princeton<\/h2>\n

1. The First Leaf of the Book of Isaiah
\nat the Princeton University Library<\/h2>\n

Brought to light at the recent RGME Workshops at Special Collections of the Princeton University Library (PUL), a single leaf from an unknown Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript in small format now has its own blogpost, showing images of both sides of the fragment.<\/p>\n