| Description | Biblia Latina: parchment manuscript Latin Bible. Written in Italy(?), containing 69 decorated initials on blue background, some historiated, and or/overlaid with silver, red and blue flourishes, with well-preserved medieval painted edge decoration. Bound in early 20th-century in half-red goatskin and oak boards replacement with a large metal clasp. Written throughout by the same hand in a very neat, well-executed Gothic minuscule of the late 13th or early 14th century. An insert pasted inside (f 1*r), dated 1859, details the manuscript's later history. |
| CustodialHistory | According to a note in the front of the volume, the original binding was removed when the manuscript was taken out of Spain "many years" before 1859. It belonged to a Spanish lawyer who, obliged to leave Spain owing to his political opinions, resided in England as a refugee for some years. The manuscript was rebound in England, c1856. |