{"id":21016,"date":"2025-12-29T02:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=21016"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:32:40","slug":"a-leaf-with-patchwork-from-the-saint-albans-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-with-patchwork-from-the-saint-albans-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leaf with Patchwork from the Saint Albans Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Leaf with Patchwork
\nfrom the Saint Albans Bible
\nin the Collection of William Voelkle<\/h1>\n

Double columns of 46 lines in Gothic Script
\nwith 2-line Decorated Initials, Bar-Extensions,
\nFoliate Ornament,
\nand Marginal Inhabitants (Monkey, Dragon, Bird)<\/h3>\n

Northern France, circa 1330<\/h3>\n

Psalms 107:14 ([facerimus uir-]\/tutem et ipse<\/em>)
\n\u2013 108:31 (a persequentibus<\/em> [animam meam<\/em>] )
\nand 109:2 ([tuorum te<\/em>-]cum principium . . . <\/em>)
\n\u2013 110:6 (. . . operum suorum<\/em> \/ [adnuntiabit populo suo<\/em>])<\/h3>\n

Plus Cut-Out with Patch apparently from the Same Bible
\nCut out (in 14 lines of one column):
\nPsalms 109:1\u20132 (Dixit Dominus domino meo . . . tuorum te<\/em>-\/]cum principium<\/em>)
\nReplacement Patch (in 14 lines pasted to opposite side):
\nEpistle of James 1:11\u201315 (peccatum uero cum<\/em> \/ [consummatum fuerit<\/em>]<\/h3>\n

[Posted on 27 December 2025<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Collection of William Voelkle, Framed Leaf from the Saint Albans Bible: Recto under glass. Photograph by William Voelkle.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our series of RGME Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts, Etc.”<\/a>, continues to uncover more leaves from the fragmentary manuscripts which the workshops consider, by request. Now we report another leaf from the Saint Albans Bible<\/strong>, with which our workshops began.<\/p>\n

We set the stage by reviewing two leaves which generated our interest in this manuscript and its fragments. They belong to the Farrell and Weber Collections respectively, with portions from the Old Testament and the New Testament respectively.<\/p>\n

The ‘new’ leaf belongs to the Collection of William Voelkle. Its pieced-together pieces represent parts of one Book from the Old Testament and another from the New Testament.<\/p>\n

The patchwork, replacing a cut-out portion with a cutting from elsewhere in the volume, resembles a phenomenon which we explored previously in another fragmentary Vulgate Bible, the larger Lectern Bible dispersed by Otto F. Ege as his Number 14.<\/p>\n