Stony Brook University Libraries Digital Projects and Exhibits

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  Lectionary: Lectionarium

  Leaf 3. "The fine large book hand shown here, suited to easier reading in a dark cathedral, is a revival of the script developed nearly four centuries earlier in scriptoria founded by Charlemagne" (Ege). "Ink of brown tone is generally found in early manuscripts, less frequently after 1200 A.D."
  Original medium: Manuscript
  Date: 12th c.
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  Missal: Missale Plenarium

  Leaf 2. "Many Missals, Bibles, and Psalters of the XIIth century were written in this fine bold script" (Ege). "Some of the letters in this book, however, have been carefully compared with those in a manuscript known to have been ordered in Spain in 1189 A.D. by a certain Abbot Gutterius, and it was found that the resemblance is striking."
  Original medium: Manuscript
  Date: 12th c.
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  New Testament: Testamentum Novum, cum Glossis Bedae, Hieronymi, et Gregorii

  Leaf 1. "The chief interest of this text is the interlinear glosses and commentaries from the writings of Bede, Jerome, Gregory, and other church fathers" (Ege). "The beginning of the trend to compactness and angularity is seen in many of these later editions. This manuscript shows through marks of ownership that it was in Geneva for centuries."
  Original medium: Manuscript
  Date: 12th c.