DPL Reed MMF8

Gospel of St. John, glossed, Latin. France, ca. 1225

Single leaf. At least 305 by 193mm (mounted, edges concealed). Single column, 25 lines of biblical text and 49 lines of gloss on alternate ruled lines, ruled in leadpoint, written space 217 by 150mm; gothic hand.

Text: John 12:20–39, with the <i>Glossa ordinaria</i>.
Provenance: From a copy of St John with the gloss of Anselm of Laon (d. ca. 1117). The script is similar to that of Bibliothèque Nationale de France MS. lat. 15239. Purchased from Maggs catalogue 862 (May 1959), no. 19.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 71; Reed Early Bibles no. 11.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 8.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).