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Bifolia.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: The individual sheets folded into two leaves that together form a gathering.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Bifolium from a Bible written in Italy.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10272
Scope and Contents

The bifolium contains Amos ix, 7-15, the prologues to Obadiah (F Stegmüller, ‘Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’ (Madrid, 1940), volume i, numbers 519 and 517) and Obadiah 1-20 (folio 1), and Micah ii, 4-v, 6 (folio 2).

Written in a large littera textualis with running titles, headings and chapter numbers in red. There is one ten-line decorated initial in red and an eight-line decorated initial in yellow, red, blue and green. Obadiah is marked 'Liber xix' and Micah 'Liber xxi'.

Dates: 1st half of 12th century.