Greek Scrolls & Manuscripts

on papyrusmostly extant as fragments

John 4:25 - 4:51 c. 4th century from St. Catherines Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Egyptfrom facsimile of Codex Sinaiticus, published 1911uncial hand

Latin Manuscripts & Codexes

on parchment

Prophetess Sibyl

inlaid floor decoration at Duomo di Siena (Cathedral of Siena), Italy

constructed late 12th - early 13th c.

Portions of Joshua 8th or 9th c. Visigothic minuscule, scriptura continua Spanish

Glossed text of Mark 15:11-22 c. 1175 - 1199 Carolingian minuscule Swiss from monastery of St. Gall

Glossed portions of Mark 7 & 9 c. 1185 - 1199 Gothic hand French

Portions of Matthew extensive marginal & interlinear glossing from Glossa ordinaria c. 13th century Gothic hand French

Lectionary portion c. 12th century Carolingian minuscule Italian

Portions of Genesis c. 12th century Gothic hand English

Sententiae by Isidore of Seville c. 12th century Carolingian miniscule Italian (text originally composed in Hispania)

Sententiae by Isidore of Seville c. 12th century Carolingian miniscule Italian (text originally composed in Hispania)

Florilegium (some excerpts referenced as from Isidore of Sevilee & Gelasius) 1040 - 1060 late Carolingian miniscule Italian

Liber Extra commissioned by Gregory IX c. 1285-1315 Littera bononiensis, gothic, and noting hand Bolgona, Italy

Liber Extra commissioned by Gregory IX c. 1285-1315 Littera bononiensis, gothic, and noting hand Bolgona, Italy

The Domesday Book (a.k.a. The Description of England)1086

The Geneva Bible(first Bible with verse numbers, printed in Roman alphabet) c. 1560

Imaging Scribes

Jarrow With Cabinetearly 8th c. Hiberno-Saxon

Evangelist St. Mark with his symbol, a winged lion blowing a trumpet, carrying a book698 (or 710-21) Hiberno-Saxon

Self-portrait of a scribe: Eadwine (monk of Canterbury, the self-proclaimed prince of writers)ca. 1140-1150from the Eadwine Psalter (copy of the Utrecht Psalter) Christ Church, Canterbury

Scriptorium in the tower of Monastery of Tavarafrom the Beatus Manuscripts 1220 Spain

later images, St. Jerome in his study

(c. 347 420) formative monk-scholartranslator of the Vulgate Bible

St. Jerome in His Studytempera on panel painting by Master of San Jacopo a Mucciana, Italian, 14th c.

David harping, and St. Jerome writing in St. Hugh's Bible c. 1180 English

Saint Jerome and the Lionoil painting by Colantonio, c. 1445, Italian

Saint Jerome in His Studyoil painting by Jan van Eyck, c. 1435, Flemish

Images sourced from:ArtStor (www.artstor.org) The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (www.csntm.org)Digital Scriptorium (www.digital-scriptorium.org)