Bible

Accession number: 
MS G.40
Title: 
Bible
Created: 
Tours, France, early 9th cent.
Credit: 
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description: 
1 leaf (2 text columns), matted : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 240 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased in Nov. 1956 from Arthur Rau, Paris for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes: 

Ms. single leaf (fragment), written and illuminated in France, probably Tours, early 9th century.
Text: Leviticus I, 1.
Decoration: 1 large decorated initial U.

Script: 
Caroline minuscule.
Language: 
In Latin
Century: 
Classification: