Bible. New Testament. Latin

98 leaves (plus 4 modern paper endleaves), 320mm. by 220mm., complete, collation: i-iv¹², v⁸, vi-viii¹², ix⁶, double column, 50 lines in black ink in an angular early gothic hand, capitals touched in red, paragraph marks in red, headings and versal numbers in alternate red and blue, numerous variegated blue or red initials with contrasting blue penwork, large blue and red initials (some a full page in height) with red and blue penwork tracery, numerous leadpoint and drypoint glosses, some small spots, upper righthand corner slightly cockled, else excellent condition, nineteenth-century brown velvet over pasteboards (joints split, spine and extremities rubbed)

Written in Northern France in the second half of thirteenth century, but evidently in use in England by c.1300 (see MMBL I, p.120); Law Society, armorial bookplate and ink stamp on flyleaf

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This is a fine and elegant New Testament in a large format, perhaps produced for public readings. The contents follow the usual order, and nineteen of the twenty-two prologues agree with those recorded by Ker (MMBL I, pp.96-97; with the exception of the second prologue to Matthew, Stegmüller no.589; and with the addition of Stegmüller no.678, to Romans, in place of Stegmüller no.677; and Stegmüller no.834 to the Apocalypse).

At the end, a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century English hand has added the first sixteen lines of the lists of Hebrew names.