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| Keywords: Calligraphy.malmesbury.bible.arp.jpg Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey Wiltshire England The Bible was hand written in Belgium by Gerard Brils for reading aloud in a monastery <br> The text on display is Latin and it comes from the book of Numbers Num 1 24-26 The text is including the first line which is not entirely visible suarum recensiti sunt per nomina sin<br>gulorum a viginti annis et supra omnes<br> qui ad bella procederent 25 quadragin<br>ta quinque milia sexcenti quinqua<br>ginta 26 De filiis Iuda per genera<br>tiones et familias ac domos<br> cognationum suarum per nomina<br>singulorum a vicesimo anno et <small>of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war; 25 Those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of Gad were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty 26 Of the children of Judah by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and</small> It is interesting to note the scribal abbrevations which are used thoroughly such as the symbol for -rum see the end of the first word on the second line and the use of bars over vowels to indicate a missing n viginti annus second line again and of course the symbol for et although it is written in full near the end of the text Other abbrevations include the modified 'p' for 'per' and the use of dots above characters to indicate missing letters sup with dots instead of supra 2005-02 own Adrian Pingstone Arpingstone Calligraphy 1407 texts Taken with Olympus C-750UZ Old Testament Bible manuscripts Book of Numbers Textura Malmesbury bible | ||||
