Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Italy (central)

Notes

• Initial D with St. Jerome
   
• This initial begins Jerome's preface to the Pentateuch, 'Desederii mei desideratas accepi epistolas ....' The Pentateuch is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament in the Christian faith: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Jerome, who lived from ca. 347 to 420, translated the Hebrew and Greek books of the Bible into Latin in a translation known as the Vulgate. He also wrote prefaces for the different books of the Bible which were copied with the books of Bible throughout the Middle Ages.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf that continues the text of Jerome's preface to the Pentateuch, which begins on the front or true recto.
   

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Support

Script

Keywords

• 12th century
• Bible
• Biblical
• Italy
• Italian
• Fragment

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